The Domenici Wellstone Equitable Treatment Act sought to increase access to mental health care services and improve the efficiency and fairness of insurance coverage for mental illness.

A Peace Corps physician working in Africa relates the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on Americans and others in Africa.

The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on the use of databanks in genomic research requires informed consent by groups and individuals who are subjects of research.

A hospice volunteer relates his first experience of visiting and befriending a dying patient.

A case that describes a terminally ill patient's request for a prescription for barbiturates to end her life and the legal and ethical implications the request has for the prescribing doctor under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.

Reading his medical school application of 15 years earlier, the journal editor finds that his motivations for entering medicine can be better appreciated as his career unfolds.

Contemporary medicine has been the subject of many televisions shows. Whether intensely dramatic or humorous and comical, each gives the public a small piece of the picture of American medicine today.

When disasters or catastrophic events occur, health care personnel must have an emergency preparedness plan in place and be able to move through disaster triage at hospitals to other venues.

A psychology professor stresses the importance of cultural competence and cultural sensitivity physicians in meeting the end-of-life care needs of an increasingly diverse patient population.