In this issue of Virtual Mentor from the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, the issue of money and business is explored. This include the choice of specialty by medical students, the impact of money and business on medical practice, the rise of 'spa doctors' and 'concierge doctors' and whether the issue of making money is a problem for medical students.
Virtual Mentor. May 2009, Volume 11, Number 5: 349-422. Full Issue PDF
May 2009 Contents
Specialty Choice and Business Decisions in Medicine
Listen to the VM's May podcast on Medical Students and Specialty Choice.
Clicking the "Ethics Talk" link will take you to VM's podcast.index page, where you can download any of VM's podcasts, including May's interview with two medical students who discuss how and why they selected the residency programs they wish to enter.
From the Editor
The Growing Importance of Business to Medical Students
Nathaniel J. Brown and Jeffrey M. Dueker
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:351-354.
Educating for Professionalism
Clinical Cases
Decision Making at the Crossroads of Practice Choice
Commentary by John G. Halvorsen
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:355-360.
Mainstream Medicine Meets the Medi-Spa
Commentary by Lionel Bercovitch
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:361-367.
Competitiveness Can Undermine Team Goals
Commentary by Jeffrey Reagan and Laurel C. Blakemore
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:368-372.
Medical Education
Medical Business Ethics Education: Guarding the Patient-Centered Focus of Medicine
James M. DuBois
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:373-377.
Journal Discussion
O Doctor, Where Art Thou? Why Fewer Students Pursue Internal Medicine
David Y. Chen
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:378-382.
Clinical Pearl
What Is the Consensus about Managing Health Risks Associated with Type-A Personality?
Sundeep Jayaprabhu
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:383-386.
Law, Policy, and Society
Health Law
Splitting Fees or Splitting Hairs?
Cheryl Miller
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:387-389.
Policy Forum
Closing the Gap: Finding and Encouraging Physicians Who Will Care for the Underserved
Keisa Bennett, Julie Phillips, and Bridget Teevan
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:390-398.
Medicine and Society
The Business of Healing, Then and Now
Daniel N. Robinson
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:399-401.
History, Art, and Narrative
Medical Narrative
On Money in Medicine and the Angst It Creates for Medical Students
Allison Carmichael
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:402-405.
Op-Ed and Correspondence
Op-Ed
Higher Pay
E. Ray Dorsey, John A. Dorsey, and E. Richard Dorsey
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Virtual Mentor. 2009; 11:406-409.
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