Some patients’ end-of-life care plans still require good antimicrobial management.

Merits of more antimicrobial prescription oversight should be weighed against risks to patients and communities of untreatable bacterial infections.

A patient and physician must have a strong line of communication when dealing with pain that has no clear causes.

Clarifying both patients’ and professionals’ values fosters good clinical decision making, particularly in situations of uncertainty.

How information is provided can change a choice. Decision science helps reveal affective forecasting errors and can generate choices congruent with patients’ and families’ values.

Recent advances in UTx suggest it is on a trajectory toward becoming an accepted clinical practice to treat absolute uterine factor infertility.

Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions.

AI might improve patient-clinician relationships, but various underlying assumptions will need to be addressed to bring these potential benefits to fruition.

Ideally, patients and clinicians should have sufficient time to engage in SDM. In reality, time is often insufficient.

Reimagining a classic responds to modern demands on patient-clinician relationships while suggesting the persistence of this relationship’s sanctity.