Today’s modern trauma system is a relatively new phenomenon, and trauma surgeons are constantly responding to the changing needs of the populations they serve.

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

Physicians have an ethical obligation to provide not only clinical care but also forensic examinations to human trafficking victims in conflict zones.

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.

Which distinctions between minimally conscious states and vegetative states should clinicians consider?

Patient safety is a medical ethics issue that must be addressed through health care teams’ open communication as well as through time-outs and checklists.

Advancing the health of the global poor requires a “compass-based” framework that guides both morally sound and pragmatically effective action.

Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

Does a patient’s request not to have a diagnosis included in her health record undermine a clinician’s capacity to provide clinically and ethically appropriate treatment?

Overriding a proxy decision maker’s refusal of medication for a psychotic patient is justified when the patient poses a danger to himself or others.