A case exploring who has the authority to make contraceptive choices, 15-year-old girl whose sexually active status is unknown or her mother, and what is the physician's duty in the situation.
Readers are referred to an article by J.T. Berger in a 1998 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine and provided with a list of ethical questions to consider about culture and ethnicity in clinical care.
The journal invites students to share observations and reflections of healing and learning captured in photographs taken during their medical training.
The journal asks students to submit nominations for physician role models and contains a short profile of Sir William Osler, a late 19th century humanistic practitioner.
Readers are referred to an article by N.A. Dimeo in a 1998 issue of JAMA, along with an audio link, that explores what it means to be human in patient-physician communications.