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.
Readers are referred to an article by N.A. Dimeo in a 1998 issue of JAMA, along with an audio link, that explores what it means to be human in patient-physician communications.