Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.

For patients historically stripped of control over their reproductive health, consideration of past violations and transparent discussion are key.

Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity and are chronically underrepresented in the clinician workforce.

Behind the immediate pathophysiology of a medical condition often lies the emotional turmoil of an uncertain patient.

A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt a person to “voluntarily” make a choice intended by those who altered an environment or situation to yield that choice.

This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

This comic conveys the absurdity of overreliance on symptom measures and excessive testing in contemporary clinical decision making and health care practice.

Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error.

Dr Travis Rieder discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of “legacy patients,” and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.