This issue includes an On Being a Doctor essay, titled “Our Family Secrets,” that we think, and hope, will make readers' stomachs churn (1). In this essay, the author describes teaching a medical humanities course to senior medical students and asking, “Do any of you have someone to forgive from your clinical experiences? Did anything ever happen that you need to forgive or perhaps still can't forgive?” One of the students—clearly distraught—recounts lacking the courage to object to a surgeon's highly disrespectful behavior to a patient under general anesthesia for a vaginal hysterectomy. The author then recounts how he was ...

Reference 1. Anonymous . Our family secrets. Ann Intern Med . 2015 ;163:321. doi: 10.7326/M14-2168 LinkGoogle Scholar ;163:321. doi: