AMA Journal of Ethics

This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

Counseling a patient about reconstructive surgery for a traumatic and disfiguring injury requires special consideration.

End-stage heart failure patients can experience depression along with their chronic illness. Multidisciplinary responses are critical.

Social determinants and freedom situate newcomers’ capacity for well-being.

Clinical trials should assess patients’ distress and test interventions to address it, just as they assess adverse events and test novel therapeutic agents.