Physicians must ask themselves ethical questions before recommending participation in phase I trials to patients.

Putting the interest of patients first means attending to what the patient thinks is most important as well as treating medically significant symptoms and conditions.

Putting the interest of patients first means attending to what the patient thinks is most important as well as treating medically significant symptoms and conditions.

Should physicians engage beliefs and practices that do not agree with their medical judgment as a means to securing patient adherence to recommended treatment?

Pairing medical students with chronically ill community volunteers for 2 years helps those students gain appreciation for the experience of illness, develop self-reflection and perspective-taking, and learn to communicate with people who may be quite unlike them.

The participatory decision-making model for patient-physician relationships is the best approach for addressing the individual family-related and social influences that stress that relationship.

The principal therapies for type 2 diabetes and the benefits and possible side effects associated with each.

According to documented studies, patients who have good relationships with their physicians are less likely to file complaints in the event of an adverse medical outcome.

Physicians are responsible for overseeing and collaborating with the expanded health care delivery team.

Society values both the appropriate use of new technological and management innovations and the maintenance of a strong personal and therapeutic relationship between patients and physicians. The medical-home model may be able to accomplish both.