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Student-Led Rural Health Fairs: Attempting to Improve Medical Education and Access to Health Care

Objectives: Residents of rural communities, especially in the Southeast, have decreased access to health care. Ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to their issues is complicated by the urban location of most schools. We describe health fairs conducted in rural communities to suggest how having medical students use screening tools…

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Absolute versus Relative Values: Effects on Family Practitioners and Psychiatrists

Background Research demonstrates that religious values clearly impact on the judgments made by physicians and their patients. One basic dichotomy—belief in ethical values that do not change (absolute values) versus belief in values that change depending on the situation (relative values)—has recently been experimentally associated with different ethical decision-making patterns….

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