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.

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.

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

The implications of genetic explanations for behavioral traits such as violence and the public’s interpretations of them.

When a child or family begins to stand out because of patterns in history or physical findings, physicians must determine whether to take a closer look at the situation.

As the United States became more successful in preventing and treating many infectious diseases, homicide and suicide rose in the rankings of causes of death.

The physician’s responsibility to detect acts of bullying and intervenes to help those who bully and are victims of bullies.

Physicians are bound in most states to report treating injuries they suspect are violence related.

Professional Responsibility in Preventing Violence and Abuse Physicians’ professional and ethical obligation to detect, prevent, and treat the results of abuse is not always clear-cut or easy to fulfill.

The UCLA curriculum model educates students about intimate partner violence by integrating the topic into existing preclinical and clinical course work and offering elective experiences for interested students.