Demographic information about a specific subset of patients can help physicians recognize conditions they do not expect to find in the larger population.

Physicians face challenges in getting reimbursed for the care they provide to immigrants.

When recruiting physicians from developing countries for U.S. residency training slots there are ethical concerns that program directors and potential residents should be aware of and discuss.

Immigrant patients are often bewildered when they need to seek health care in the U.S., and that care usually comes from physicians who are unsympathetic to their plight.

An argument is made for integrating Spanish language instruction into education of the interdisciplinary health care team, if not into the medical education of physicians per se.

The underlying cause, diagnostic criteria, and treatment for conversion disorder.

Stem cell research, abortion rights, competency to make medical decisions for one’s self or stand trial, the nature of mental illness—all presuppose particular views of the human person.

Clinical decision making calls for use of both explicit and tacit knowledge despite evidence-based medicine's assumption that explicit information is sufficient.

Even though a patient's suffering does not appear to have a physical basis, physicians have a duty to deliver standard tests and compassionate care.

Bias toward allopathic medicine in the research funding and publication of study results makes it difficult for physicians and others to find accurate data about the efficacy of non-Western, nonallopathic treatments.