In an extreme response to the threat of student violence, a school district in Texas certified its teachers to carry weapons and sanctioned them to respond to threats with deadly force if necessary.

Asymmetry in knowledge and power between (1) physicians and patients and (2) physician educators and their students creates a climate for possible abuse in both sets of relationships.

Guidelines for physicians who have a duty to report their suspicions of child abuse.

Managing mistreatment of medical students and others in the learning environment.

The Drexel University College of Medicine Women’s Health Education Program is a model for training medical students to screen for and respond to intimate partner violence.

The risks associated with mandated physician reporting of intimate partner violence outweigh the benefits such a policy might confer.

Physicians can manage and treat probable victims of gang violence without breaching the youth’s confidentiality.

The VA works with federal, state, and community agencies to ameliorate the homeless veteran problem and some of its causes.

It’s a challenge to manage care for homeless people who have chronic health problems and seek warmth and safety in hospital emergency rooms.

Despite a tendency to react otherwise, there is no obvious reason to believe that economically disadvantaged people ought not to be exposed to the same levels of research risk as the rest of the population.