Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients.

Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified.

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

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Eva V. Regel joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Clinicians Help Homeless Trauma Survivors Make Irreversible Surgical Care Decisions?”