Current evidence suggests how hospice and palliative care clinicians can help advocate for high-quality, end-of-life care for patients with obesity.

Physicians may involve themselves in political advocacy as long as it does not damage patient relationships or erode access to health care. They may, in fact, have an obligation to do so.

Clinical and psychosocial considerations influence how oncologists approach discussing sperm banking with adolescent patients who are about to undergo chemotherapy and with the parents of those patients.

The ethical reasons for making gamete donation nonanonymous and allowing offspring to have access to donor information.

The Internet has changed the patient-physician relationship but may actually help that relationship become more equally balanced in terms of information flow.

Three reports considered by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs are described, along with the process for revising the AMA's Code of Medical Ethics and trivia about contraceptive use.

The careers of four physician legislators who have been successful in combining their medical and political identities are examined.