This month Virtual Mentor spoke with Dr. Emeka Okafor about the benefits of, and barriers to, telemedicine, and what can be done to help regulate this growing industry.

Instructing a surrogate to make one's end-of-life decisions should be a social, morally guided decision, not a purely personal one.

Virtual Mentor spoke with Dr. Saul Levin, vice president of science, medicine, and public health at the American Medical Association about the effect of Don't Ask, Don't Tell on physicians and why the AMA supports of repeal of the controversial Act.

Virtual Mentor spoke with Dr. Stephen Epstein of Harvard Medical School about the Massachusetts ban and what other communities can learn from one state's experience.

Virtual Mentor asked six "people on the street" in Chicago for their views about the personal and social effects of elective cosmetic surgery.

Harmful biases about people who are overweight persist even among professional care givers.

Should doctors ask about their patients' religious or spiritual beliefs?

Personal genome analysis available online

What lifestyle and other factors influcence the specialty choices today's medical students make?

Making best use of information patients bring to the clinical encounter from the internet.