Those conducting Western-style clinical trial research in developing countries must consider the manner in which ethical principals are implemented within local standards of care.
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.
Readers are referred to an article by Neil Farber et al in the Archives of Internal Medicine to discuss whether it is appropriate for physicians to administer lethal injections for capital punishment when medical society policies forbid physician participation.
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.