AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Arina Evgenievna Chesnokova, MPH, a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, interviewed Megan Sandel, MD, MPH about how physicians can establish partnerships with attorneys.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to physicians’ roles in safe water access.

Why must a vet with serious mental illness seek shelter in a group home or stand on a street corner with a sign that says, “Homeless Vet—Please Help.”

Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.

The weight of mentors’ burnout born by students is depicted in this image of arms entangling anguished faces.

Health equity requires physician-dentist collaboration. What are next steps for integrating oral and general health care?

Telesurgery is a form of global health diplomacy, and negotiations between LMICs and HICs can have transnational consequences.

This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia.

There are at least two considerations here: the patient’s perception of a physician’s empathic expression and the physician’s level of comfort with expressing empathy and attending to patients’ emotions.