[Communication in medicine: a new and much needed curricular alternative].

Background: Medical education must emphasize communication practices mostly for undergraduate medical students.

Objectives: To introduce an approach for teaching and learning communication in medicine.

Methods: Review of the literature.

[Ehrlichia infection in a child: clinical findings and review of the literature].

A 12 year old child was brought in by his parents due to persistent fever of 3 weeks duration, sore throat, malaise, chills, small joint arthralgia, myalgias, and a pink macular rash. The first clinical impression of the physicians was infectious mononucleosis but serologic testing ruled out the diagnosis. He was then treated with oral ampicillin without a favorable response.

[Perinatal bioethics: euthanasia or end-of-life decisions? Analysis of the Groningen Protocol].

The so called "Groningen Protocol" was conceived as a framework to discuss the euthanasia in neonates. Originally, it presents three groups of babies who might be candidates to this option. We analyzed the protocol in its original context and that of the Dutch society in which it was created.