Limited language proficiency is a driver of health inequity and exacerbates other social determinants of health.

Physicians and pharmacists play key roles in addressing social determinants of health and health inequity.

Patients’ cultural, religious, and social norms deserve respect, but some decisions’ effects on patients’ outcomes can be unjust and ethically troubling.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

Risk managers can help patient-subjects and clinician-researchers make informed novel device implantation decisions in the absence of preclinical trial data.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.