An ethical case explores whether a physician has an ethical or legal duty to disclose financial incentives provided through a patient's health plan.

Readers are referred to an article by SJ Youngner in a 1998 issue of JAMA to discuss whether physicians should continue to use the term futility, which might confuse some patients to think that the appropriate standard of care is not being provided.

The journal invites students to share their medical training observations captured in photographs by highlighting three historical photographs depicting the casualties of war and the role that military and civilian physicians played in healing the wounded.

Readers are referred to an article in a 1998 issue of JAMA by Hochstadt A. Reiner to consider the experience of health care from the patient's perspective.

Little-known medical trivia.

Perri Klass, a pediatrician and medical director of Boston Medical Center's Reach Out and Read program and author of several books about medical training, is recognized as an exemplary role model in medicine.