Viewpoint: Vaishnavism: Monotheistic or Not?

pre-coordination or not?

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To Tell, or Not to Tell; Confidentiality in an Iranian HIV Positive Patient: A Viewpoint

Confidentiality is a basic concept in medical ethics and protecting confidentiality is considered as physicians' duty. In some occasions, this protection is in conflict with the right of the patient's sexual partner, who should be informed about the possibility of being infected. The sexual partner being pregnant, the situation is going to be more complicated. In this paper, we present a case d...

Viewpoint : Information Warfare : Hype or Reality ?

E. Anders Eriksson is a Senior Analyst with the Defence Research Establishment (FOA), Stockholm, Sweden, specializing in technology and innovation and their relationship to national security and other public goods. Dr. Eriksson has a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author, and do not represent the...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Viewpoint: today's professionalism: engaging the mind but not the heart.

Professionalism is au courant in medicine today, but the movement to teach and evaluate professionalism presents a conundrum to medical educators. Its intent is laudable: to produce humanistic and virtuous physicians who will be better able to cope with and overcome the dehumanizing features of the health care system in the United States. However, its impact on medical education is likely to be...