Helping an Impaired Peer

The journal editor compares the medical school experience to the structure and functioning of a family, with the behavior of one reflecting on the whole.

Physicians and physicians-in-training have a responsibility to speak up if they feel a medical colleague's impairment puts patients at risk.

Physicians and physicians-in-training have a responsibility to speak up if they feel a medical colleague's impairment puts patients at risk.

An ethical case that was eventually decided in the US Supreme Court involves the right of patients to request an independent third-party review if their HMO refuses to authorize treatments or procedures deemed medically necessary.

The concept of professionalism in medicine has been expanded over the years to cover a broad set of ideas about everyday behavior and habits of physicians.

The threat of bioterrorism in the form of aerosolized smallpox is real, and policy is needed to clarify the risk of disease to the public and recommendations on vaccination.

Little-known facts about food allergens, allergies, and labeling.

South Africa has created a Sesame Street character with HIV in order to provide age-appropriate, entertaining health education for children.

The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.