AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Clinicians and police are positioned to help persons experiencing homelessness, but little has been said about how their best impulses to serve could most productively overlap.

Chicago Street Medicine implements HHC to improve health outcomes and care continuity for patients experiencing homelessness.

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

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

The model minority myth has far-reaching implications for Asian Americans in many settings, including medicine.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.