Training should be implemented to respond to clinical staff members’ concerns about trans patients occupying sex-segregated spaces and to help mitigate anti-trans bias.

Vegan patients screened for vitamin and mineral deficiencies might benefit from supplements, but physicians are obliged to discuss lack of regulation in the supplement industry and possible risks.

Understanding the religious background of patients and their surrogates is essential to providing patient-centered care at the end of life.

Prognostic uncertainty about risk creates demand for ongoing communication and facilitated reflection about goals and values.

Whether a patient’s decisional regret constitutes a failure of shared decision making can depend on how a decision was made.

Shared decision making honors patient autonomy, particularly for preference-sensitive care decisions and even when patients have impaired decision-making capacity.

Residency cross-training facilitates mutual respect and good communication during routine clinical care and during crises.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

Helping patients mitigate their risk of chronic disease is key, but dietary supplements are risky.