Physicians need to understand when it may be appropriate to let patients get involved in medical decision-making and when it may be necessary to provide their personal medical judgment.
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 attending physician in an urban teaching hospital faces an ethical dilemma when a mother refused to allow an African American medical student to examine her child.
The journal will present narrated stories from JAMA's A Piece of My Mind column to illustrate how spoken words reveal much about the relationship between patient and physician. Readers are referred to a story by S.A. Schmidt in a 1996 issue of JAMA.