Equitable transitions of care for incarcerated patients returning to the community will require physician advocacy and systems-level change.

As billable procedures, advance care planning (ACP) conversations need measurable outcomes and training support. Integrating ACP into standard practice is key to ensuring clinicians deliver care that matters to patients.

Many physicians assist others at great risk to their personal safety as part of Physicians for Human Rights.

Pathologists should work cooperatively with clinicians and provide guidance about appropriate testing to uphold the medical ethics principle of justice.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Physicians need to exhaust every possible alternative to bring about political changes before resorting to breaking the law as an act of civil disobedience.

Physicians need to exhaust every possible alternative to bring about political changes before resorting to breaking the law as an act of civil disobedience.

Incorporating research-based health activism into the medical school curriculum can help physicians be more efficient advocates for patients.

Professional civil disobedience can have benefits and risks to both medical professionals and patients.