This commentary considers how clinician-governors should respond to how Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores are applied.

Dr Lisa Lehmann joins Ethics Talk to discuss “grateful patient programs,” pressures clinicians face to fundraise on behalf of health care organizations for which they work, and whether “VIP” care really is better for patients.

Dr Mignon Duffy joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why Improving Low-Wage Health Care Jobs Is Critical for Health Equity.”

Dr Mark G. Kuczewski joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees how to care well for undocumented patients.

To improve health outcomes, clinicians must move quickly yet operate slowly enough to center empathy in practice.

Medicine has been defined by doing, but bias, error, and burnout are potential consequences of speed and constant activity.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

One expression of structural injustice in the United States is delivery of health care according to patients’ race and insurance status.

Commitment to health equity demands higher pay, improved benefits, and more workplace protections for all health workers.