This commentary on a case canvasses federal and organizational rules applicable to health recordkeeping and “open notes.”

Electronic health records are now critical in day-to-day health care operations.

Since health care organizations’ widespread adoption of electronic health records, clinicians’ notes about patients’ care have become longer and more cumbersome.

This commentary offers best-practice recommendations about informed consent processes and patient-clinician relationship formation.

Patients with undiagnosed conditions often experience frustration and lose trust in health care.

Dr Mylynda B. Massart joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Erika N. Dreikorn: “How Should Students and Trainees Be Taught to Support Patients With Undiagnosed Conditions?”

Transparency, clarity, and a nonjudgmental attitude can help cultivate safe multidisciplinary communication and openness during a clinical encounter.

Dr Audriana Mooth joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Clinicians Follow Up About Nonresponses to Mandatory SDoH Screening Questions?”

This 20-panel comic visually explores how a health care professional’s scope of practice violations and professionalism lapses exacerbated pregnancy loss and grief.

Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Lessons in Embodiment From the World of Physical Theatre.”