Medscape Journal of Medicine

Michael Dansinger, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, composes a poem that sets priorities for President Obama.

Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the clinical use of stem cells.

Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA, Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy, explains how the "marketplace" of capitalism is harmful to the public health.

Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, FACOG, Professor of Medical Sciences and Outgoing Dean, Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, discusses the global tragedy of maternal mortality.

George T. Griffing, MD, Professor of Medicine at St. Louis University in Missouri and Editor-in-Chief of Internal Medicine at eMedicine, encourages us to stop these unhealthy habits.

Stuart A. Green, MD, Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Irvine, discusses a new way to teach doctors ethics.

Rick Kulkarni, MD, Medical Director, eMedicine.com, and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, discusses open-access publishing.

Tina Hartert, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, discusses whether the date of conception predicts childhood asthma.

Ursula Snyder, PhD, Former Editor, Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, New York, explains how we can truly improve our listening with this method.

Ursula Snyder, PhD, Former Editor, Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, New York, NY, teaches us how to improve our listening skills.

Ursula Snyder, PhD, Former Editor, Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, New York, NY, explains how to improve physician-patient conversation.

Wonder Drake, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, teaches us about sarcoidosis.

David J. Maron, MD, Assoc. Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, explains why we need COURAGE to administer the right cardiology therapy.

George T. Griffing, MD, Professor of Medicine at Saint Louis University in Missouri and Editor-in-Chief of Internal Medicine at eMedicine, teaches us about abdominal height.

Brian Klepper, PhD, a healthcare analyst from Atlantic Beach, Florida, offers a solution to the primary care problem.

Stan Kutcher, MD -- Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, IWK Health Centre, and Dalhousie University -- explains how to improve youth mental health.

R. Sean Morrison, MD, Prof. of Geriatrics and Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center, discusses an economic reason for palliative care.

Nancy Covington, BSc, MD, President of Physicians for Global Survival, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, invites us to reconnect with the physicians\' movement against nuclear war.

Peter Frishauf, MS, founder of Medscape, discusses the possible end of medical journals.

Steven Morris, MD, Professor of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, teaches us about plastic surgery flaps.

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH, of Cisco and Harvard Medical School, explains why we need to learn to communicate better.

Joanne Langley, MD, MSc, Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, explains how to prevent children from catching influenza.

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, explains why many should participate in clinical trials.

Jock Murray, MD, Former Dean of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Chairman Emeritus, American College of Physicians, compares the US and Canadian systems.

Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, explains how we can compare treatments for effectiveness.

Dov Michaeli, MD, PhD, Managing Partner, Madah Medica LLC, Larkspur, California, and of www.thedoctorweighsin.com, explains how 1 chemical makes humans unique.

Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, shares his position on the medical home.

John Geyman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine, University of Washington, explains what will happen when the American health insurance industry dies.

Brian Jackson, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Utah, and Medical Director of Informatics at ARUP Laboratories, teaches us the best use of laboratory tests.

Linda Emanuel, MD, Prof. of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, explains rapid advance care planning.

Karen Davis, PhD, President of The Commonwealth Fund in New York, discusses the fundamental differences between Obama and McCain plans.

William A. Gardner, MD, Executive Director, American Registry of Pathology, Silver Spring, Maryland, describes the importance of visual images to medicine.

Tammie Quest, MD, Director of EPEC -- Emergency Medicine Project -- discusses whether families should observe CPR.

Shannon Brownlee, MS, Visiting Scholar, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, explains how to both cut healthcare costs and improve quality.

Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, exhorts diverse healthcare workers to improve their cooperation.

H. Steven Moffic, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses whether doctors or patients come first.

Erica Frank, MD, MPH, Professor, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, and Founder, Executive Director, Health Sciences Online, describes an exciting new online science resource.

Jack R. Bierig, AB, JD, Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, teaches us about a serious hospital-medical staff conflict.

Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, explains why we should start paying more attention to men's health.

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, reminds us to take care of the WHOLE patient who has cancer.

Emily Friedman, Independent Health Policy and Ethics Analyst, Chicago, Illinois; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, dissects the primary care issue.

Prajwal Ciryam, second-year MD/PhD student at Northwestern University and Co-Founding Member of Health Care for All Illinois, explains why an American single-payer system is right.

Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP, Director, The Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, describes many ethical twists in electronic health records.

Ingrid Kohlstadt, MD, MPH, FACN, Associate, The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, explains the muscle part of weight gain and loss.

Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, tells us how medicine and industry can and cannot collaborate.

Tammie Quest, MD, Director of EPEC -- Emergency Medicine Project, explains the right way to disclose a death to family members in the emergency department.

Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, describes how to eliminate racial disparities in your practice.

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, discusses the impact of the "baby boomer" generation on medicine.

Michael Millenson, President of Health Quality Advisors and the Mervin Shalowitz, MD, Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University\'s Kellogg School of Management, discusses physician transparency.

Emily Friedman, an independent health policy and ethics analyst, discusses the passing of our most needed hospitals.