A look at current literature and work by a statewide initiative can motivate development of policies that help respond to unrepresented patients’ needs.

Many pregnant undocumented immigrants are ineligible for public insurance covering prenatal care. National and state policies can either help or hinder patients’ access to health care that is universally recommended by professional guidelines.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Presenting all, including expensive, options to all patients means advocating not only for individual patients, but also for a just health care system.

Successful implementation of initiatives to improve screening and access to health-promotion activities at minority-serving religious institutions requires partnering with faith-based organizations, adapting interventions, and leveraging organizational infrastructure and social networks.

Students and residents might not fully use available interpreter services due to time pressures and a lack of incentives from supervisors.

Physicians’ ethical obligation to ensure communities’ access to safe drinking water has roots in their expertise, social authority, and role as mediators.

A physician advocate who has taken public advocacy stances against the federal government while employed by the government talks about the conflicts that arise between medicine and politics.

A physician argues that every clinician should expand themselves beyond individual patient care and on some level adopt a public role within their community.

A physician member of Congress gives a first-hand account of how she has balanced medicine and politics and how she views her responsibility to the patients of America.