Abstract

From the Editor

In his Letter to the Editor, Amir Al-Dabagh, soon to become a physician and join our noble profession, has brought to our attention not only the plight of refugees who experience lack of medical care but also by contrast the wonderful medical care that exists here in the United States. For those of us who have tended to patients in humanitarian and disaster relief efforts outside the United States and during short-term medical missions abroad and in our own locale, much of what we in America take for granted with respect to the physician–patient relationship and the health care we can deliver comes into sharp focus.