Health sector actions exacerbate climate warming and iatrogenically harm the global public.

Motivating health equity requires taking deliberate steps toward desegregating health care, especially in academic health centers.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.

In Newlywed, a woman is stressed by unsolicited opinions and frequent insinuations that marriage inevitably leads to babies.

The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care.

Medical tourism creates an ethical dilemma for domestic physicians who wish to provide continuity of care but avoid liability in a malpractice suit.

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.”

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.