Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients.

COVID-19 underscores historical precedent for fear-driven responses that disregard autonomy among persons with low income who are also persons of color.

Guidance about sedation to unconsciousness and medically ineffective interventions can be applied to surgical palliation.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers guidance for balancing need for safety with demand for innovation.

This series of 5 color oil on canvas sketches includes a sequence of images and illuminates one patient’s postoperative experiences.

A history of device oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration traces regulatory changes in response to injuries caused by Dalkon Shield intrauterine devices.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

Furthering clinicians’ understandings of how daily practice can respond to Black patients' experiences can help restore trust and mitigate racial and ethnic health inequity.

For health professions and ethics journals, decisions about what is published and promoted profoundly influence humanity’s well-being across time and place.