I read with great interest the editorial on the pharmaceutical company–healthcare relationship published in the April-June issue of this journal [1]. Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly used by physicians to guide treatment decisions, and the pharmaceutic...

Background: It is challenging to teach the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship through attitude, ethics, and communication (AETCOM) modules, particularly without being formally trained and especially to first-year medical students who do not interact dire...

Sociality is an ineluctable aspect of the human condition. Both the meaning of our existence in the world and the meaning of the end of our existence come to us from the other and their death. Sharing these meanings in joy, grief and angst fills the moments of our ...

Poetry is a powerful tool to promote communication, develop insight and empathy, examine ethical issues, and challenge assumptions. We have been using poetry in health professions education for many years and wished to capture its impact on healthcare learners and ...

Background: Unethical provider practices in public healthcare schemes adversely impact beneficiaries’ health, result in the loss of public funds, and also bring disrepute to the schemes. There is extensive literature on the typologies of unethical practices in healthcare in developed countries...