Where people live and work influences how long and how well they live. Supporting community investments can diminish risk, improve outcomes, and reduce costs.

What are key factors for successful partnerships between health care organizations and communities? We discuss strategies for building trust and engaging effectively.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement could affect low-income patients’ access to medicines in signatory countries by reducing generic competition.

CPR has become default treatment for all patients in cardiac arrest. The history of how this happened demonstrates the power of CPT coding.

Early hemodialysis allocation deliberations can inform deliberative democratic methods for setting criteria for and guiding policy making about ECMO.

An orthopedic surgery physician’s experiences suggest strategies for addressing patients’ discriminatory behaviors or speech.

Correctional facilities’ physician employees are at risk for burnout, posttraumatic stress, and suicide. Prison reform should address needs of inmates and staff.

A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.

The authors further consider the merits of preventing ECMO from becoming a default treatment.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.