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Nathan A. Bostick, MA, MPP, is a Senior Research Assistant at the American Medical Association Ethics Group in Chicago, [email protected]. Robert Sade, MD, is a Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. John W. McMahon, MD, is Corporate Medical Director of the Montana-Pacific Quality Health Foundation in Great Falls, Montana. Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, is Chief Executive Officer of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. © 2006 by The Journal of Clinical Ethics. All rights reserved.