Graphic pathographies can facilitate physicians’ empathy with patients during informed consent and end-of-life conversations and promote patient education.

Two things clinicians should be aware of are gag laws and background check laws for gun transfers and safe gun storage.

Continuing medical education (CME) attendance on gun safety is associated with firearm safety counseling and asking patients with depression about guns.

When mandatory reporting of risk of violence is not required, physicians should balance patient autonomy and beneficence with patient and public safety.

The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.

Family planning to mitigate climate change should reflect patients’ values and preferences, which physicians should elicit during contraceptive counseling.

The risks of misinformation being spread through online patient forums can be mitigated by communication strategies aimed at physicians and organizations.

Using focus groups to obtain stakeholder feedback can lead to epistemic injustices if the decision-making process is not perceived as procedurally fair.

An image of a husband and wife’s intertwined hands captures one patient’s inspiration for living.

Commentary by Aveena Kochar, MD, and Alia Chisty, MS, MD Co-creative teams can overcome conflict by drawing on quality improvement principles.