Images in Clinical Medicine

Visual images are a rich source of the information we use in clinical medicine, yet we expend little effort to enhance our perception and recognition of these images. A new feature introduced in this issue of the Journal, Images in Clinical Medicine, will present a broad representation of useful and clinically important visual images. We believe that exposure to these photographs will help sharpen the reader's ability to identify common forms. As doctors we encounter an enormous variety of images from day to day, including skin lesions, funduscopic views, blood smears, bone marrow smears, urine sediments, microbiologic specimens, joint . . .