The Catholic Church demonstrates a preferential option for the poor not only by providing charity but also by demanding justice for the poor.

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

Discover practice options for physicians working in a county that provides no funding for non-emergency care of undocumented patients.

Physicians face challenges in getting reimbursed for the care they provide to immigrants.

A journal article's findings confirm that patients in Kentucky with private health insurance have better clinical outcomes than patients with other types of insurance.

A discussion of how physicians should handle a patient's request to be tested for diseases that have received a high level of media coverage.

Physicians have a duty to learn the facts and use their medical expertise to allay patients' fears rather than order unnecessary tests when a certain disease or condition receives a great deal of media coverage.

Increased awareness and improvement in access are needed in order to alleviate the racial disparities that exist with regard to the underutilization of hospice care by African Americans and other ethnic populations.

Sets the ethical limits of student participation in patient care when the students are part of foreign medical teams.

Physicians need to counsel patients about the limitations of genetics test results and what the results mean in terms of a clinical prognosis.