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.
A U.S. physician relates the culture shock he is experiencing working as an area medical officer in Eastern Africa for the U.S. Peace Corps in his latest online journal entry.
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.
Professor Richard L. Cupp Jr joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “How Might Corporations’ and Nonhuman Animals’ Personhood Compare Under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?”