The four-quadrant approach can illuminate ethical issues in burn care related to decision-making capacity, respect for autonomy, and medical futility.

Professional obligation should override personal values when it comes to providing legal medical services.

A defense of the position that physicians have a moral duty to serve in the military.

Little-known medical trivia.

Generalist physicians should be aware of the many air-, water-, and food-borne toxins that can trigger and exacerbate illness.

Knowledge of women's physiology, in health and in disease states, deserves attention as a specialized field of study.

The relatively new phenomenon of releasing President George W. Bush's medical records to the public also serves the purpose of boosting his political image.

The concept of professionalism in medicine has been expanded over the years to cover a broad set of ideas about everyday behavior and habits of physicians.

Little-known trivia about emergency rooms.

Undocumented immigrants treated with isoniazid (INH) for latent tuberculosis infection should be covered for transplant for INH-related liver failure.