Five Things Students and Clinicians Should Know About "Biocontainment".

was one way that Western, affluent, allopathic cultures tended to respond and make meaning during the 2013-2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) pandemic. It became a pathway to restore trust in biomedicine itself, which had been shaken by unease across the globe when the EVD threat was at its height. Yet biocontaining barely qualifies as a public health measure.

Does a Patient's Trauma History Ethically Justify a Discriminatory Clinical Referral?

This article analyzes a child psychiatrist's referral approach when the patient's care must be transferred to an adult psychiatrist and the otherwise best adult psychiatrist has "accented" language, which is associated with the patient's prior trauma. The analysis considers the value of simplicity and a related "simplicity strategy," revealing that many ethical factors lay behind the simplicity approach. The inquiry then addresses simplicity regarding practical wisdom and context.

Cultivating Humility and Diagnostic Openness in Clinical Judgment.

In this case, a physician rejects a patient's concerns that tainted water is harming the patient and her community. Stereotypes and biases regarding socioeconomic class and race/ethnicity, constraining diagnostic frameworks, and fixed first impressions could skew the physician's judgment. This paper narratively illustrates how cultivating humility could help the physician truly hear the patient's suggestions.