A self-portrait in bold colors depicts an experience of imposterhood in medicine.

Trainees are expected to encounter clinical training environments and situations that utilize force methods.

Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

Tribal-university partnerships are fewer in education than in research, but just as important for expanding opportunity and improving health infrastructure.

Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.

Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity and are chronically underrepresented in the clinician workforce.

Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error.

Pain is the most common reason patients seek health care. The AMA Pain Care Task Force suggests how clinicians can offer good pain care and become savvy about situating themselves in the health care system to do so.

More frequent use of robotic-assisted surgeries means we need to ask more questions about care quality and equity, informed consent, and conflicts of interest.

Costs partly determine organizational robotics, but questions remain about whether and to what extent they should influence care decisions.