Unsettling drug patent settlements: a framework for presumptive illegality.

A tidal wave of high drug prices has recently crashed across the U.S. economy.

Responsive medical professionalism: integrating education, practice, and community in a market-driven era.

Revolutionary changes in the nature and form of medical practice institutions are likely to reverberate backward into medical education as leaders of the new practice organizations demand that the educational mission be responsive to their needs, and as these demands are increasingly backed by market power. In the face of this pressure, medical education's traditional response--that it should have autonomy in defining its mission--is no longer viable. Instead, more explicit, formal, and systemic linkages between practice and educational institutions are inevitable.