In health care, costs can come across like “market priced” items on menus in upscale restaurants.

This article applies principlism to what a “shoppable service” model would demand of clinicians in practice.

Fragmentation in US health care delivery streams and shortcomings in formal quality measures mean that transparency could be more useful to policymakers and regulators than patients.

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

More transparent pricing would allow patients and families to make better decisions, but there are limitations to how reliably it promotes efficiency and market discipline.

Decisions about where and to whose professional stewardship patients are admitted are influenced by federal policies of which physicians might not be aware.

Drug shortages are persistent and serious in the US, affecting care quality and costs. An early warning system could help.

The price transparency movement seeks to make actual medical costs clear to patients and clinicians.

Moral distress arises not only from organizational constraints on moral action but also from the environmental impacts of health care and climate change.

When prescribing antibiotics, physicians should weigh individual benefit against both environmental and community harms.