Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

Refusal of pediatric euthanasia can be considered iatrogenic insofar as it inadvertently prolongs patient suffering, but attitudes differ cross-culturally.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

“Difficult” patient-physician encounters have roots in uncertainty about individuals’ trustworthiness, clinicians’ skills and training, and medical science.

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.

A physician attorney argues that the best way to ensure that physicians don't refuse to treat patients is to create a system in which their medical education is fully funded and they must repay a debt to society.