Even disclosed conflicts of interest can be dangerous in health care settings, but disclosure might not be the panacea many seem to take it to be.

There is great need for good teaching about how to have culturally appropriate conversations among clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Force is codified in law, so force utilization inequity demands that we consider connections between systemic oppression and individuals’ responses in clinical settings.

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error.

Good health care for elders requires acute ethical attention to the role of ageism as a pervasive source of bias.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.