The Domenici Wellstone Equitable Treatment Act sought to increase access to mental health care services and improve the efficiency and fairness of insurance coverage for mental illness.
Contemporary medicine has been the subject of many televisions shows. Whether intensely dramatic or humorous and comical, each gives the public a small piece of the picture of American medicine today.
A case that describes a terminally ill patient's request for a prescription for barbiturates to end her life and the legal and ethical implications the request has for the prescribing doctor under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
The journal editor encourages retired physicians to share their expertise and knowledge of core medical values by mentoring medical students and new physicians.
An ethical case explores whether a medical student doing a radiology rotation has a duty to inform a patient whose chest x-ray shows bony metastases that was not caught by the original radiologist or mentioned in the ED chart.
An ethical case explores whether an attending physician should allow a medical student to place a central line on a Medicaid patient even though the student has failed the procedure two previous times.