Money, Medicine and Business

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.