The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.
Three reports considered by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs are described, along with the process for revising the AMA's Code of Medical Ethics and trivia about contraceptive use.
While there are benefits to genetic screening during pregnancy, parents must not let their desire for a genetically perfect child allow them to terminate a pregnancy because of non-medical factors.
Physicians need to take an active role in improving the genetic literacy of the general population and also push for public health policies that make new genetic tools available to everyone.
A Peace Corps physician working in Africa recounts the challenges of obtaining prompt medical treatment for Trypanosomiasis and other tropical diseases in a country where emergency care is not readily available.
A Peace Corps physician in Africa describes in his latest online journal entry how the countries that could most benefit from telemedicine technologies are often unable to use it due to poor communications infrastructures.
Physicians must maintain their professional and ethical duties to patients even in light of health care corporations employing a growing number of physicians.