Reconnecting to Essential Ideals

Strengthening the Social Contract

Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations

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.

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.

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.

Little-known trivia about race, ethnicity, and the patient-physician relationship.

Those conducting Western-style clinical trial research in developing countries must consider the manner in which ethical principals are implemented within local standards of care.

A Peace Corps physician working in Eastern Africa relates in his latest online journal entry some humorous anecdotes about his experiences there.

The media helps shape the general public's perception of the American Medical Association as the emblem of organized medicine.