The open-access journal movement seeks to make medical research and treatment articles available free of charge to health professionals around the globe.
There are many elements and much coordination involved in the design and implementation of an effective resident training program in systems-based practice.
Virtual Mentor spoke with Dr. Stephen Epstein of Harvard Medical School about the Massachusetts ban and what other communities can learn from one state's experience.
Unclear regulations and informal data gathering on immigrants who receive or donate organs can cause mistrust and suspicion of the organ allocation system and affect donation rates.
People with mental illness or a degenerative mental disease have special protections under the law when entering into contracts or other binding documents.
Amidst discussions of how to maximize physician contributions in high-risk disaster situations, the author asks if doctors are actually duty-bound to contribute at all.