How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

The FDA’s approval for over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception marked a departure from its standard approval process and obstructed access to a safe and effective drug. That departure could set a dangerous precedent for future decisions.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

When adolescents seek emergency contraception in the emergency room, social judgment on the part of clinicians can hamper treatment.

“Difficult” patient-physician encounters have roots in uncertainty about individuals’ trustworthiness, clinicians’ skills and training, and medical science.

A physician attorney argues that the best way to ensure that physicians don't refuse to treat patients is to create a system in which their medical education is fully funded and they must repay a debt to society.

There are many challenges that need to be overcome before a regulating body can be established to oversee surgical procedures and devices.

Film, television, radio, and other media fail to accurately portray the diversity among health care professionals and the patients they treat.