The journal editor believes that medical leaders must decide which interests of a national physician organization are of paramount importance, and only after such organizational clarity is achieved can the medical profession speak with a unified and coherent public voice.

While ethical behavior is both desirable and necessary in medicine, requiring an ethics entrance exam as part of the medical school application process is not the best means to achieve that goal.

The increasing application of pharmacogenomics will signal a need for major policy changes that address ways to maintain patient confidentiality and make the technology available to all members of society.

The stethoscope exemplifies how physicians must balance the objective information obtained from medical technology with the patients' subjective experience of illness in order to make an accurate diagnosis.

Little-known trivia about the use of bones, tissues, and organs from donated bodies.

A newspaper reporter who was a live organ donor for his childhood friend relates the impact first-hand reporting of the experience had on his life as well as the public.

A caregiver recounts how the untimely death of her husband led her to become a hospice volunteer.

A pre-med student relates his family's experiences in trying to get his strong-willed grandfather to adhere to a strict medical care regimen for his chronic condition.

A patient relates his experience undergoing plastic surgery to correct drooping eyes.