The Code offers guidance about delivering a diagnosis and promoting patients’ best interests when assigning names to patients’ conditions.

Which factors should be part of standard required reconsideration discussions?

Current policy requires separate informed consent for some Public Health Service increased-risk donors, and this can make shared decision making harder.

Reliance on disclosure rather than understanding has prompted shared decision making and represents an important cultural change in clinical practice.

Gender-affirming surgery for teens is growing as a field. Norms about who should be involved, to what extent, and for which health decisions are still evolving.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

Portraiture facilitates learners’ explorations of their own and others’ biases, limitations, and approaches to gathering information from and about a source.

Some physicians who value collective bargaining remain concerned that patient services could suffer, but unionization can be driven by a focus on improving care.

In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms.

Underrepresentation of individuals with limited English proficiency who speak Spanish is ongoing in phase 3 biomedical clinical trials and exacerbates health inequity.