Rebates for patient testimonials?

The NY Times reports that some surgeons are providing rebates or free services to patients who promote their procedures on the Internet. The ethics of doing so are debated.

41 Secrets Your Doctor Would Never Share

Reader's Digest offered two dozen doctors a chance to tell it like it really is, and general practitioners, surgeons, shrinks, pediatricians, and other specialists took the challenge. Some wanted to be anonymous; some didn't care. But all of them revealed funny, frightening, and downright shocking things that can help you be a better, smarter patient.

Senior Program Officer, Gold Humanism Honor Society

The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) at the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, seeks a seasoned program officer to lead the society through its growth and expansion.

Trouble shared is trouble doubled

Theodore Dalrymple, a.k.a. Dr. Anthony Daniels, is a retired doctor and psychiatrist currently working at a slum hospital and prison in Birmingham, England. He writes for the New English Review. This piece deals with the idea of keeping our troubles to ourselves, the antithesis of modern psychotherapy: “It is an unfashionable truth in these times of psychobabble and emotional intelligence, but a trouble shared is often a trouble doubled.” (Thanks to Brian Maurer for this post.)

Georgia Author of the Year Award

Of general interest, YJHM contributor Melody Moezzi has been awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award for her book War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims.

Medical Ethics Conference at Baylor University

Nationally prominent experts in medical and health care ethics with credentials in medicine, philosophy, and theology will be among the speakers during Baylor University's annual Medical Ethics Conference on June 13-14 at George W. Truett Theological Seminary on the Baylor campus.

Future of e-journals

Stan Katz, past president of the American Council of Learned Societies, offers some thoughts about the future of the e-journal.

"Through patient eyes"

Jeremy Daniels and Elaine Chow, medical students at the University of British Columbia, submit this sketch as a reminder for us not to forget the faces behind those ECGs ...