Many surgeons listen to music while performing surgery, a practice that should be implemented with respect to all who will be present in the operating room.

A case that explores the impact of financial incentives from insurance companies on the patient-physician relationship and whether or not they should be disclosed to a patient.

The authenticity of a physician-in-training's account of traveling to a remote Arctic island and encountering a dying elderly tribal leader is subsequently challenged by the author's clinical prefect.

A patient recounts his experience volunteering for a clinical research study that required hospitalization for collection of several fluid and tissue specimens.

Little-known medical trivia.

An ethical case explores what a physician should do when a patient's health insurance will not cover a screening test for cancer despite the fact that a family history puts the patient at increased risk of developing the disease.

An ethical case explores whether it is ethically appropriate for physicians to treat their immediate family members.

Physicians are asked to consider the role patients' emotions play in the healing process.

Little-known medical trivia.

Readers are referred to an article by J.T. Berger in a 1998 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine and provided with a list of ethical questions to consider about culture and ethnicity in clinical care.