Responding well means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy.

This graphic narrative considers underinsurance, compromised access to indicated care, and intergenerational health inequity.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.

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

Novel interventions that are effective and safe but costly suggest the importance of questions about value, accessibility, and affordability.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

Insurers’ decisions about which services to cover are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged.

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

Clinicians must advocate for decriminalization of SUDs during pregnancy and for improving access to comprehensive, evidence-based care.

American visual and narrative representations of Native experiences suggest an obligation to look on 19th-century White American artists’ romanticizations of those experiences with humility.