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.

Effective interprofessional collaboration and patient care require understanding team members’ roles and responsibilities and clear communication.

The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care.

Interprofessional education facilitates health care team members’ communication, which impacts patient care, and thus is relevant to medical ethics.

Pathologists should work cooperatively with clinicians and provide guidance about appropriate testing to uphold the medical ethics principle of justice.

Cytopathologists frequently interact directly with patients at their bedsides to perform fine needle aspiration procedures. When, if ever, should cytopathologists share preliminary diagnostic impressions directly with patients?

The allocation of scarce resources, such as HLA platelets, involves a conflict between the medical ethics principles of beneficence and social justice.

Pathologists’ adoption of practical social media use guidelines can help mitigate risk to patients.

A neglected topic in medical ethics is the unique barriers to error disclosure faced by anatomic and clinical pathologists.

The authors address the medical ethics question of whether autopsy is necessary from Cartesian and sociocultural perspectives and how to obtain consent.