The editor believes the patient-physician relationship is impacted by naming conventions for physicians.

A family physician enters into contract with a clinical research organization to recruit patients. As a clinical investigator, she is paid for each patient she recruits. Ethical questions for discussion are raised.

Those conducting Western-style clinical trial research in developing countries must consider the manner in which ethical principals are implemented within local standards of care.

A new Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs policy explicitly forbids physicians-in-training from practicing life-saving interventions on newly deceased individuals without consent.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis raises ethical and moral concerns about using one person as a means to save another, especially as highlighted in recent cases where parents have more children in the hopes of saving a sick child.

A Peace Corps physician working in Eastern Africa relates in his latest online journal entry some humorous anecdotes about his experiences there.

A bioethicist who had thyroid cancer as a child describes his recent positive experience as an adult patient with his surgeon and how his surgeon's bioethics training helped the patient-physician relationship.

Two poems about a physician's experiences with a patient's death.

Little-known trivia about race, ethnicity, and the patient-physician relationship.

Yeongchi Wu, a physiatrist who worked for two decades for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, is recognized as a role model for his many inventions to help people with disabilities and for championing the needs of amputees.