Salvatore Mangione1, Brian F Mandell2, Stephen G Post3. 1. Associate Professor of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Penn. Electronic address: salmangione@gmail.com. 2. Professor and Chairman of Academic Medicine, Department of Rheumatology and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. 3. Division Head, Medicine in Society, Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, New York, NY.