Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncertainty and ambiguity about brain death by understanding clinical criteria for brain death determination and how our approaches to death are culturally and socially situated.

This article considers force use in clinical settings after a triggering event—a behavioral or medical crisis—and considers how it should be implemented.

Tactical emergency medical personnel direct triage and resource allocation and administer immediate interventions.

A public health approach to violence is required to help 21st-century policing evolve.

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive device mass casualty incidents mean patients require prehospital and hospital care.

Benefits of physicians’ work with law enforcement personnel in field-based operations are ethically rich and complex.

Amendments to the Common Rule and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) raise questions about broad consent and sale of health data.

Violence perpetrated against unarmed patients is common in health care, and evidence-based safety measures are needed to acknowledge and eradicate clinical violence.