False information undermines health and exacerbates disabilities. Constitutional rights to free speech come with responsibilities. Clinicians and citizens have duties to counter false health information.

Alan Heins, an emergency room physician honored by the AMA for his leadership abilities, believes time management and establishing priorities are essential in both medical school and scheduling work hours for physicians.

Little-known facts about water.

Patients with limited English proficiency may suffer in the health care setting in the absence of clinical interpreters.

An ethical case concerns a 16-year-old girl suffering from systemic scleroderma with a poor prognosis and her father's cultural beliefs, which do not allow for discussions about end-of-life care.

Practicing preventive medicine techniques and providing health education for the public will improved the health and longevity of people worldwide.

The AIDS quilt memorializes those who lost their lives to AIDS and helps increase public awareness of the disease and methods of HIV prevention.

Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah by Peter Dans, MD (Medi-Ed Press, 2000).

A patient recovering from a mastectomy creates a symbolic painting representing the many important forces that impacted her journey toward healing.

Placing a black band across the face of a patient's photo published in a medical publication does not adequately protect the patient's privacy and anonymity, as evidenced by the image of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with a black band across her eyes.