Virtual Mentor Archives

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  Clinical Case Index

2009

• October Religion, Patients, and Medical Ethics
• September Ethical Questions in Genetic Testing
• August Problematizing the Principle of Autonomy
• July Medicine in the Era of Globalization
• June Medicine and the Environment: Doing No Harm
• May Specialty Choice and Business Decisions in Medicine
• April Ethics in Clinical Research
• March Challenged Patient-Physician Relationships
• February Professional Responsibility in Preventing Violence and Abuse
• January Medical Care for Homeless Individuals

2008

• December Hospitalists and Patient Care
• November Ethical Questions in Prevention
• October Ethics and Neonatal Intensive Care
• September Ethical Issues in Sleep Medicine
• August Establishing the Boundaries of Informed Consent
• July Sex and Gender in Medicine
• June Quality of Life and Geriatric Patients
• May System Constraints on Optimal Care
• April Medical Care for U.S. Immigrants
• March Medicine and Personhood
• February Caring for the Incarcerated Patient
• January Ethical Issues in Diagnosing and Treating Addiction

2007

• December Ethics and Public Health: Physicians as Agents of the State
• November Ethical Issues in Diagnostic Radiology
• October Medicine, Ethics, and War
• September The Parental-Fetal Disconnect
• August Ethics and Multiculturalism in the Patient-Physician Encounter
• July Physician Accountability
• June Goals of Medicine: Decision Making at the Margins
• May Roman Catholic Medical Ethics: Beginning and End-of-Life Issues
• April Professional Development in Medical School
• March Media Influence on the Practice of Medicine
• February Patients, Doctors and Medical Device Technologies
• January Ethics of Cancer Care and Research

2006

• December Global Health: Ethics of International Medical Volunteerism
• November Understanding the Illness-Poverty Relationship
• October Parental Competence in Medical Caregiving and Decision Making
• September Humanist Approaches to Care at the End of Life
• August Ethical Issues in Dermatology
• July State of the Art of Healing in the 21st Century
• June Sound Prescribing
• May Conflict of Values in the Clinical Setting
• April Ethical Questions Posed by Emerging Epidemics
• March Cost of Care
• February Expertise in Medicine
• January Ethical Issues in Screening

2005

• December Physicians in Public Roles
• November Ethical Issues in Endocrinology
• October Ethical Decision Making in the Diagnosis and Management of STDs
• September Ethical Challenges in Organ Donation
• August Difficult Conversations in Medicine
• July Access to Care
• June Ethics in Family Medicine
• May The Role of Faith in the Patient-Physician Relationship
• April Theme Issue on Professional Self-Regulation
• March Ethics in Adolescent Medicine
• February Quality of Life and Clinical Decision Making
• January Special Theme Issue on Internal Medicine

2004

• December Standards of Care: An Ethical Examination
• November Research Ethics
• October Ethics in the Practice of Surgery
• September Medicine and Human Rights
• August Ethical Issues in Neurology
• July Medicine in Sports and Fitness
• June The Ethics of Quality Care
• May Medicine's Response to Terrorism
• April Medicine and the Social Contract
• March Patient Safety and Medical Error
• February Paternalism in Medicine
• January Physician Activism

2003

• December Professionalism in Medical Education
• November Public Health Ethics
• October Psychiatry
• September Physician Well-being and Burnout
• August Pediatrics
• July Medicine and Industry
• June Caring for a Culturally Diverse Patient Population
• May Obstetrics and Gynecology
• April The Difficult Patient-Physician Relationship
• March Medical Residency
• February Emergency Medicine
• January Do No Harm (End-of-Life Care)