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VMethics

  1. What Does the Code Say? AMA Code of Medical Ethics' Opinions on Ethical Referral bit.ly/m5Uc75
  2. How does Goggle affect the patient-doctor relationship? bit.ly/IS8UUG
  3. Medical Education: A Longitudinal Approach to Handoff Training bit.ly/IPbCuU
  4. The Patient-Physician Relationship: Classic Questions and New Directions bit.ly/JE6z5e
  5. Fighting Obesity: Bloomberg Plans a Ban on Large Sugared Drinks in NYC nyti.ms/JTL50Y
  6. 1st Circuit rules #DOMA unconstitutional on.msnbc.com/KuMgqd
  7. Listening to Xanax: How America learned to stop worrying about worrying and pop its pills instead bit.ly/JTGJac
  8. When Is a Patient-Physician Relationship Established? bit.ly/JQzBO5
  9. Why are Patients Afraid to Speak Up at the Doctor’s Office? nyti.ms/LZVPx6
  10. Drug Maker Endo Gets Input in House Bill on Generics nyti.ms/JVo6Rj
  11. Aspirin: The New Anti-Cancer Wonder Drug? onforb.es/Ju4eFj
  12. The Art of Medicine: Reconnecting to the Moral Core of the Profession bit.ly/JN3r8G
  13. Is Physician Self-Disclosure Ever Appropriate? bit.ly/somIX8
  14. "Sickness Is a Place": The Foreign Culture of Illness bit.ly/J2TLDB
  15. I Am Not Myself: Understanding Illness as Unhomelike Being-in-the-World bit.ly/HDIZCl
  16. What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad? on.wsj.com/LcFRws
  17. Does Health Information Technology Dehumanize Health Care? bit.ly/e6VGFt
  18. Use of Bar-Code Technology to Reduce Drug Administration Errors bit.ly/gMtxQq
  19. Prostate Cancer: Men Should Skip Common Blood Test, Panel Says bit.ly/JlI2yr
  20. Individualism, Solidarity, and U.S. Health Care bit.ly/ISZLO9