On the morning of July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau paced ner- vously around the now-demolished Baltimore and Potomac train depot in Washington, DC, with his newly purchased revolver held snugly in his possession. The unwitting President Garfield, on his way to Williamstown, Massachusetts, for a college reunion, met with two of Guiteau’s bullets as he crossed the station preparing to board…
In response to growing recognition of the role played by behavioral and social factors in health and disease, the National Institutes of Health and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine to conduct a study of medical school education in the behavioral and social sciences. The study included a review of the approaches used by medical schools to incorporate the behavio…