Public and self-stigma negatively influence patients’ quality of life, employment, and housing opportunities.

Dr Nat Mulkey and Dr Carl G. Streed Jr join Ethics Talk to discuss their article coauthored with Dr Barbara M. Chubak, "A Call to Update Standard of Care for Children With Differences in Sex Development."

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

Covert medication administration might be as forceful as physical or chemical restraint for patients lacking insight.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

Patients leaving against medical advice draw attention to intersections of tort law, federal and state regulations, and clinical ethics.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.