Aside from its use to rule out potential physical causes of a patient’s condition, for example a brain tumor, neuroimaging is not used in the process of psychiatric diagnosis.

Telepsychiatry extends access to psychiatric treatment to those who might not otherwise get it, but licensure problems and the risk of boundary violations between patients and physicians need to be worked out.

A discussion of how to handle the documentation of mental health care in electronic medical records so that patient wishes for confidentiality are balanced with the need for interdisciplinary communication and care coordination.

A physician in a university student health center may feel a duty to intervene when he finds out from a patient that a student who is not a patient is diverting medication, but doing so would violate patient confidentiality.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on physicians treating family members.

The legal definition of a patient and the corresponding duties of the physician have been debated in state courts for over a century, and many aspects of the question are still unresolved.

When the tension between solidarity and individualism hardens into entrenched oppositional politics, attempts to widen health care coverage are stymied.

Overview of a program for medical students, residents and fellows, and academic medical center faculty to train them in useful handoff and handoff evaluation techniques.

Though they seem inocuous, health fairs can pose an unexpected risk to patients if the follow-up prevents patients from seeking routine medical care.

Rather than creating an environment of disintermediation, information in the absence of an intermediary, the Internet may be creating an environment of apomediation, information surrounding all parties. This puts the medical team in the position of interpreter or guide.