The editor hopes that practicing physicians will set aside bias and dissatisfaction they may have in their jobs and serve as positive role models and online virtual mentors for the next generation of physicians.

Although the process of therapeutic cloning to derive compatible tissues is now scientifically possible through the use of embryonic stem cells, moral, ethical, and legal issues need to be resolved, particularly in relation to the federal funding of research.

Conflicts on end-of-life care of terminally ill patients can be better resolved if the physician is a good communicator and active listener.

When patients and physicians disagree on the use of genetic engineering technology, physicians must act in accordance with professional ethics and society's guidelines.

An ethical case describes an elderly patient who becomes disoriented and combative when left alone at night and the subsequent use of restraints without informing her family.

Trivia about escalating medical school costs.

Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah by Peter Dans, MD (Medi-Ed Press, 2000).

The Declaration of Helsinki was recently revised to require testing the treatment arm of a trial against the current standard of care, even if that standard is not generally available in developing nations where the research is being conducted.

A patient recovering from a mastectomy creates a symbolic painting representing the many important forces that impacted her journey toward healing.

A profile of the late Matthew Lukwiya, of Uganda, who dedicated his life to his patients and to the containment of the Ebola virus, to which he tragically succumbed.