Professionalism

Case and Commentary
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: Renewing a Prescription for a Relative
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD
Educating for Professionalism
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):323-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.hlaw1-0110.
History of Medicine
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: Physicians and the Obligation to Provide Charity Care
Karen Geraghty
Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):335-338. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.mhst1-0110.
Personal Narrative
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: "Please Help Me. My Baby Is Sick and Needs Medicine."
Robert C. Davidson, MD, MPH
Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):339-341. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.oafr1-0110.
Personal Narrative
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: Through the Student's Eyes: Keeping the Trust
Sam Huber
Reconnecting to Essential Ideals
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):342-344. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.prsp2-0110.
Viewpoint
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: Through the Physician's Eyes: AMA President's Inaugural Address, 2001
Richard F. Corlin, MD
Strengthening the Social Contract
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):354-358. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.prsp3-0110.
Medicine and Society
Oct 2001

Commemorative Issue: Patients at the Margins
Sam Huber
Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(10):333-334. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.10.puhl1-0110.
In the Literature
Sep 2001

Physicians' Responsibility in the Face of Patients' Irrational Decisions
Faith Lagay, PhD
Physicians must be able to decide when to accept a patient's decision in the event that the decision seems irrational or does not seem to be in the patient's best interest.
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(9):291-292. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.9.jdsc1-0109.
Personal Narrative
Sep 2001

Through the Physician's Eyes: The Racist Parent
William McDade, MD, PhD
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.
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(9):303-305. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.9.prsp2-0109.
AMA Code Says
Aug 2001

Consent Needed to Perform Procedures on the Newly Deceased for Training Purposes
Faith Lagay, PhD
A new Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs policy explicitly forbids physicians-in-training from practicing life-saving interventions on newly deceased individuals without consent.
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(8):263-264. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.8.code1-0108.
Viewpoint
Aug 2001

Race, Ethnicity, and the Patient-Physician Relationship
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD
Little-known trivia about race, ethnicity, and the patient-physician relationship.
Virtual Mentor. 2001;3(8):279-280. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2001.3.8.dykn1-0108.