PROM data can contribute to evidence-based, shared decision making and just access to gender-affirming surgical care.

Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

In the early 20th century, the United States, as an industrialized nation with more food than ever, began to grapple with obesity.

Patients experiencing homelessness and mental illness face conditions and circumstances that deserve focused ethical and clinical attention.

Clinicians can support shared decision making by assessing patients’ knowledge, eligibility for screening, and preferences for engagement—active, collaborative, or passive—in the decision making process.

Neurobiological markers raise complex questions about what it means to be “at risk.”

How can clinicians respond to the health challenges associated with global climate change? This month on Ethics Talk, we learn about how art can communicate the health effects of climate change, the challenges that hot and humid days pose for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and what the global health risk of climate change means for individual clinicians.

Bedside rationing based on ethnicity, gender, or skin color can lead to some patients not receiving treatments to which they are entitled.

Public health and climate stabilization historically have competed for public funds, but investment in either good has the potential to advance both goods.