Health care professionals and those who teach them must be prepared to examine the implications of carbon dioxide emissions on human well-being and make decisive steps towards sustainability.

Energy reduction, water conservation, hazmat reduction, and other initiatives for making health care more environmentally friendly can also contribute positively to the bottom line.

The occasional required ethics course is not conveying to medical students that training institutions take ethics and the humanities seriously and consider them central to doctoring.

We must expand our efforts to integrate humanities training into premedical programs and graduate medical education.

Comics allowed me to convey multiple layers of a single experience. With both text and image at my disposal, I could use one to enhance the other or create contradictions and juxtapositions that were jarring or darkly humorous.

Narrative ethics derives its ethical force from continually comparing and critiquing new narratives against existing narratives that guide the way we live.

The study of music can impart much to the study of medicine.

The medical humanities can help students access and learn information they might otherwise find very difficult to master.

When a seriously ill mature minor and his parent disagree about his receiving an experimental intervention, who should decide what treatment he will receive?

Is a residents' field trip to a museum a condescending waste of time or an opportunity to reconnect with the meaning of their work and hone their observational skills?