Abortion
Pregnant Women and Cervical Cancer: Balancing Best Interest of Mother and Fetus - Sep 07
The Question of Uterine Isolation in Catholic Health Care Ethics - May 07
Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions - Dec 06
Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making - May 05
Quality of Life and Prenatal Decisions - Feb 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
Abuse
Suspected Child Abuse - Nov 07
Susto: Acknowledging Patients' Beliefs about Illness - Aug 07
Obtaining Asylum from Partner Abuse: the Physician's Role - Sep 04
Offensive Music in the OR - Dec 03
Asking Patients about Intimate Partner Abuse - Nov 03
Spare the Rod and Save the Child - Aug 03
Access to care
Psychosomatic Elaboration of Distress - Mar 08
Accessing Demand for Wheelchair Use - Feb 08
Should a Prisoner Be Placed on the Organ Transplant Waiting List? - Feb 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Smoking and Medicaid Benefits - Dec 07
Communicable Disease and Immigration Fears - Dec 07
Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients - Nov 06
Pediatric Primary Care in the ER: Is It Better than Waiting for an Appointment? - Nov 06
When Diagnosis Becomes Unaffordable - Jul 05
How Good Is Good Enough? - Jul 05
Is Greenacres (Skilled Nursing Facility) the Place to Be? - Jul 05
Physician Work Stoppages as Activism - Jan 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Addiction
Why Must Pain Patients Be Found Deserving of Treatment? - Jan 08
Communicating with Patients about Harmful Behaviors - Jan 08
Lost in the Web: Compulsive Videogaming - Jan 08
Smoking and Medicaid Benefits - Dec 07
Pregnant Women Who Smoke: A Challenge to the Patient-Physician Relationship - Sep 07
Adolescent medicine
Parental Influence on Level of Functioning in a Child with Down Syndrome - Oct 06
Coping with a Child's Conduct Disorder - Oct 06
Prescribing a Teratogenic Medication - Aug 06
Too Much Information? - October 05
Drug Testing in Adolescents - Mar 05
Transition of Care - Mar 05
An Adolescent with an Eating Disorder - Mar 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Jul 04
Limits of Youth Sports Training - Jul 04
Medicine for Malcolm - Oct 03
Diagnosis: Inadequate Cross-Cultural Communication - Jun 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Advanced directives
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Ambiguous genitalia
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Clinical research
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst - Aug 05
Heads or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials - Nov 04
Clinician and Researcher - Jul 03
Confidentiality
Duty to Warn and Dissociative Identity Disorder - Mar 08
Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases - Dec 05
Too Much Information? - Oct 05
Universal Precautions - Oct 05
The Wayward Husband - Oct 05
The "Slip" - Sep 05
When Depression Affects Treatment Decisions - Jun 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
An Adolescent with an Eating Disorder - Mar 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Jul 04
Asking Patients about Intimate Partner Abuse - Nov 03
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Confidentiality of Patient Records Requested by the Court - Oct 03
Just Don't Tell My Husband - May 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Conflict of interest
Duty to Warn and Dissociative Identity Disorder - Mar 08
Physicians' Duties in Treating Wartime Detainees - Oct 07
Maintaining Medical Neutrality in Conflict Zones - Oct 07
Pregnant Women and Cervical Cancer: Balancing Best Interest of Mother and Fetus - Sep 07
Is the Surgery Necessary Now? The Surgeon's Conflict of Interest - Jul 07
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Dermatology Lab Referrals: Cash Cow or Ethical Trap? - Aug 06
Can Healers Have Private Lives? - Jul 06
The Wayward Husband - Oct 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Doctor and Friend - Jun 05
Who Is That? Expanding the Clinical Encounter - Nov 04
Heads or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials - Nov 04
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Clinician and Researcher - Jul 03
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
Organ Donation: When Consent Confronts Refusal - Feb 03
Contraception
The Question of Uterine Isolation in Catholic Health Care Ethics - May 07
Prescribing a Teratogenic Medication - Aug 06
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
Contract with society
Lead Paint Dangers and Physician Advocacy - Dec 05
Rationing of Intensive Home Dialysis - Apr 04
Peer Reporting of Suspected Physician Misconduct - Apr 04
Physician Service to the Underserved - Apr 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Cost of care
Accessing Demand for Wheelchair Use - Feb 08
Should a Prisoner Be Placed on the Organ Transplant Waiting List? - Feb 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients - Nov 06
Hidden Costs of Free Samples - Jun 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
The Pitfalls of Drug Company Sample Use - Mar 06
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
"Can We Just Drop the Copay?" - Mar 06
When Diagnosis Becomes Unaffordable - Jul 05
Is Greenacres (Skilled Nursing Facility) the Place to Be? - Jul 05
Splitting the Difference--Patient Preference versus Conservation of Resources - Jun 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Cultural competence
Western Medicine's Diagnostic Labels Are Not Universal - Aug 07
Susto: Acknowledging Patients' Beliefs about Illness - Aug 07
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions - Dec 06
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 06
Parental Influence on Level of Functioning in a Child with Down Syndrome - Oct 06
The Desperate Parent and the Lure of Experimental Treatment - Oct 06
Obesity in Kids: When Appeals to Vanity Fail - Oct 06
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
Ethics Expertise and Cultural Competence - Feb 06
Ethics Consultation and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
The Evangelizing Patient - May 05
Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making - May 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Obtaining Asylum from Partner Abuse: the Physician's Role - Sep 04
Faith-Based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for Their Children - Aug 03
Diagnosis: Inadequate Cross-Cultural Communication - Jun 03
Cultural Differences at the End of Life - Jun 03
Decision-making capacity
Decision Making in a Case of Personality Change - Mar 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Helping the Patient Achieve Quality-of-Life Goals - Feb 05
When the Physician's Medical Judgment is Rejected - Feb 04
Psychiatrist's Role in Involuntary Hospitalization - Oct 03
Dermatology
Dermatology Lab Referrals: Cash Cow or Ethical Trap? - Aug 06
Dispensing Cosmeceuticals from the Office - Aug 06
Prescribing a Teratogenic Medication - Aug 06
The Unnoticed Mole - Oct 04
Diagnosis
Outsourcing: A Limited View of Radiology’s Role - Nov 07
Disclosure and the Retrospectoscope - Nov 07
Suspected Child Abuse - Nov 07
Disparities
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients - Nov 06
Clinical Awareness of Occupation-Related Toxic Exposure - Nov 06
Physician Service to the Underserved - Apr 04
Drug company relations
Hidden Costs of Free Samples - Jun 06
The Gift-Giving Influence - Jun 06
The Pitfalls of Drug Company Sample Use - Mar 06
Finding the (Right) Time - Aug 2005
Who Is That? Expanding the Clinical Encounter - Nov 04
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
Duty to inform
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Duty to report
Duty to Warn and Dissociative Identity Disorder - Mar 08
Communicable Disease and Immigration Fears - Dec 07
Suspected Child Abuse - Nov 07
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Jul 04
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Peer Reporting of Suspected Physician Misconduct - Apr 04
Obesity as Medical Neglect: Should Doctors Report? - Aug 03
Duty to treat
Psychosomatic Elaboration of Distress - Mar 08
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Physician in Time of Crisis - Apr 06
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Caring for the Poor -- What Can One Doctor Do? - Sep 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
Physician Service to the Underserved - Apr 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Does Patient Autonomy Outweigh Duty to Treat? - Feb 03
Emergency medicine
Diagnostic Testing for Diseases in the News - Mar 07
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Pediatric Primary Care in the ER: Is It Better than Waiting for an Appointment? - Nov 06
"I'm Sorry but You Can't Leave": Patients, Physicians, and Quarantine - Apr 06
A Fever of Unknown Source - Dec 04
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Disaster Triage - May 04
Performing Procedures on the Newly Deceased - Mar 03
Organ Donation: When Consent Confronts Refusal - Feb 03
Does Patient Autonomy Outweigh Duty to Treat? - Feb 03
Endocrinology
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons - Jun 07
Treating Short Stature with Growth Hormone - Nov 05
Controlling Diabetes - Nov 05
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Optional Treatments and Quality of Life - Feb 05
End-of-life care
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Discussing Code Status with Patients and Their Families - Sep 06
Communication Failure in the ICU - Sep 06
When Doctors Disagree - Sep 06
Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases - Dec 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Clinical Trials and End-of-Life Decision Making - Nov 04
Palliative Surgery - Oct 04
Physicians' Role in Physician-Assisted Suicide Discussions - Aug 04
Cultural Differences at the End of Life - Jun 03
Ventilator Withdrawal of Patients with "Zero Capability" for Respiratory Function - Jan 03
Epidemics
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Physician in Time of Crisis - Apr 06
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Evidence-based medicine
Stigmatized Patients' Right to Equal Treatment - May 06
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
Optional Treatments and Quality of Life - Feb 05
A Fever of Unknown Source - Dec 04
Confusion over Cholesterol Testing - Dec 04
Preoperative Screening: Medical or Legal Guidelines? - Dec 04
Limits of Youth Sports Training - Jul 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
Expertise
Western Medicine's Diagnostic Labels Are Not Universal - Aug 07
Susto: Acknowledging Patients' Beliefs about Illness - Aug 07
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Is Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Extraordinary Care? - May 07
Hospital Reputation and Individual Patient Decisions - Mar 07
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Putting It All Together--the Art and Science of Medicine - Jul 06
Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients - Nov 06
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Ethics Consultation and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Ethics Expertise and Cultural Competence - Feb 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Board Certification as Prerequisite for Hospital Staff Privileges - Apr 05
Finding the Balance in Shared Decision Making - Feb 04
When the Physician's Medical Judgment is Rejected - Feb 04
Faith
The Question of Uterine Isolation in Catholic Health Care Ethics - May 07
Is Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Extraordinary Care? - May 07
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
The Desperate Parent and the Lure of Experimental Treatment - Oct 06
Prescribing a Teratogenic Medication - Aug 06
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making - May 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Patient Counseling and Matters of Conscience - May 05
The Evangelizing Patient - May 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Palliative Care for an Infant with Short Bowel Syndrome and Advanced Liver Disease - Aug 03
Spare the Rod and Save the Child - Aug 03
Faith-Based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for Their Children - Aug 03
Balancing Parental Wishes with Medical Judgment - Jan 03
Family medicine
Discussing Code Status with Patients and Their Families - Sep 06
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Patient-Initiated Request for Donation Information - Sep 05
How Good Is Good Enough? - Jul 05
Doctor and Friend - Jun 05
When Depression Affects Treatment Decisions - Jun 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Splitting the Difference--Patient Preference versus Conservation of Resources - Jun 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Asking Patients about Intimate Partner Abuse - Nov 03
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Spare the Rod and Save the Child - Aug 03
Genetics
Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere - Sep 07
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons - Jun 07
Testing Minors for Breast Cancer - Jan 07
Breast Cancer Screening - Jan 06
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for ALS - Jan 06
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Goals of medicine
Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere - Sep 07
Cosmetic Surgery: When Fifty Doesn't Feel Fabulous - Jun 07
Treating Short Stature with Growth Hormone - Nov 05
Drugs for the Shy? - Oct 03
Human rights
Accessing Demand for Wheelchair Use - Feb 08
Should a Prisoner Be Placed on the Organ Transplant Waiting List? - Feb 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Obtaining Asylum from Partner Abuse: the Physician's Role - Sep 04
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Caring for the Poor -- What Can One Doctor Do? - Sep 04
Informed consent
Decision Making in a Case of Personality Change - Mar 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Pregnant Women Who Smoke: A Challenge to the Patient-Physician Relationship - Sep 07
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Is the Surgery Necessary Now? The Surgeon's Conflict of Interest - Jul 07
Cosmetic Surgery: When Fifty Doesn't Feel Fabulous - Jun 07
Hospital Reputation and Individual Patient Decisions - Mar 07
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Testing Minors for Breast Cancer - Jan 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Changing the Rules in Times of Crisis: Do Desperate Times Allow Desperate Measures? - Apr 06
Breast Cancer Screening - Jan 06
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Family Disagreement over Organ Donation - Sep 05
Doctor and Friend - Jun 05
Helping the Patient Achieve Quality-of-Life Goals - Feb 05
Who Is That? Expanding the Clinical Encounter - Nov 04
The Unnoticed Mole - Oct 04
Palliative Surgery - Oct 04
Is Chronic Pain Treatment the Neurologist's Job? - Aug 04
When the Physician's Medical Judgment is Rejected - Feb 04
Performing Procedures on the Newly Deceased - Mar 03
Medical education
Recruiting for Military Scholarship Programs on Medical School Campuses - Oct 07
Self-Interest versus Friendship in Medical School - Apr 07
The Many Functions of Clinical Rounds - Apr 07
Medical Student in the Middle: How Much Can Students Tell Patients? - Jan 07
Pragmatic Principles of Pharmaceutical Donation - Dec 06
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 06
Putting It All Together--the Art and Science of Medicine - Jul 06
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Ethics Consultation and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Patient-Initiated Request for Donation Information - Sep 05
Responding to Insensitive Remarks about a Patient - Aug 05
Giving Honest Feedback - Aug 05
Drinks During Lunch - Apr 05
Resident Work Hour Restrictions - Apr 05
A Case of Student Cheating - Apr 05
The Reluctant Resident - Oct 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Disaster Triage - May 04
Problem Peers - Mar 04
Offensive Music in the OR - Dec 03
Is There More to Medical School than Grades? - Dec 03
See One, Do One, Teach One: Competence versus Confidence in Performing Procedures - Dec 03
Student Role in Discussion of Diagnosis with Patients - Dec 03
Medical errors
Disclosing Error to a Patient - Aug 05
Resident Work Hour Restrictions - Apr 05
Problem Peers - Mar 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
Medicine and the media
Diagnostic Testing for Diseases in the News - Mar 07
Hospital Reputation and Individual Patient Decisions - Mar 07
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases - Dec 05
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Military medical ethics
Recruiting for Military Scholarship Programs on Medical School Campuses - Oct 07
Physicians' Duties in Treating Wartime Detainees - Oct 07
Maintaining Medical Neutrality in Conflict Zones - Oct 07
Neurology
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for ALS - Jan 06
Quality of Life and Prenatal Decisions - Feb 05
Physicians' Role in Physician-Assisted Suicide Discussions - Aug 04
Helping Surrogate Decision Makers in the Face of Uncertainty - Aug 04
Is Chronic Pain Treatment the Neurologist's Job? - Aug 04
Ventilator Withdrawal of Patients with "Zero Capability" for Respiratory Function - Jan 03
Obesity
Obesity in Kids: When Appeals to Vanity Fail - Oct 06
Stigmatized Patients' Right to Equal Treatment - May 06
Limits of Youth Sports Training - Jul 04
Obesity as Medical Neglect: Should Doctors Report? - Aug 03
Obstetrics and gynecology
Pregnant Women and Cervical Cancer: Balancing Best Interest of Mother and Fetus - Sep 07
Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere - Sep 07
Pregnant Women Who Smoke: A Challenge to the Patient-Physician Relationship - Sep 07
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons - Jun 07
Self-Interest versus Friendship in Medical School - Apr 07
Patau Syndrome and Perinatal Decision Making - May 05
Optional Treatments and Quality of Life - Feb 05
Who Is That? Expanding the Clinical Encounter - Nov 04
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Managed Care and Physician Burnout - Sep 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Responding to a Request for Early Delivery - May 03
Organ donation
Should a Prisoner Be Placed on the Organ Transplant Waiting List? - Feb 08
The "Slip" - Sep 05
Family Disagreement over Organ Donation - Sep 05
Patient-Initiated Request for Donation Information - Sep 05
An Impaired Physician's Physician - Sep 03
Organ Donation: When Consent Confronts Refusal - Feb 03
Pain management
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
Myths and Misconceptions about Palliative Sedation - Sep 06
Clinical Trials and End-of-Life Decision Making - Nov 04
Is Chronic Pain Treatment the Neurologist's Job? - Aug 04
Paternalism
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
Patient automony
Decision Making in a Case of Personality Change - Mar 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Pregnant Women Who Smoke: A Challenge to the Patient-Physician Relationship - Sep 07
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Cosmetic Surgery: When Fifty Doesn't Feel Fabulous - Jun 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Guiding Patients toward Prudent Use of Technologies - Feb 07
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
When Diagnosis Becomes Unaffordable - Jul 05
When Depression Affects Treatment Decisions - Jun 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Splitting the Difference--Patient Preference versus Conservation of Resources - Jun 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
When the Physician's Medical Judgment is Rejected - Feb 04
Drugs for the Shy? - Oct 03
Psychiatrist's Role in Involuntary Hospitalization - Oct 03
Responding to a Request for Early Delivery - May 03
Does Patient Autonomy Outweigh Duty to Treat? - Feb 03
Patient-physician relationship
Pregnant Women Who Smoke: A Challenge to the Patient-Physician Relationship - Sep 07
Is the Surgery Necessary Now? The Surgeon's Conflict of Interest - Jul 07
Guiding Patients toward Prudent Use of Technologies - Feb 07
Competing for the Physician's Attention after Hours - Jul 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Can There Be Healing without Trust? - Jul 06
Putting It All Together--the Art and Science of Medicine - Jul 06
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
"Can We Just Drop the Copay?" - Mar 06
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
Controlling Diabetes - Nov 05
Responding to Insensitive Remarks about a Patient - Aug 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Doctor and Friend - Jun 05
The Evangelizing Patient - May 05
Drug Testing in Adolescents - Mar 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Jul 04
Splitting the Difference--Patient Preference versus Conservation of Resources - Jun 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
When the Physician's Medical Judgment is Rejected - Feb 04
Finding the Balance in Shared Decision Making - Feb 04
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Psychiatrist's Role in Involuntary Hospitalization - Oct 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Never Symptom-Free - Apr 03
Patient safety
Accessing Demand for Wheelchair Use - Feb 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 06
Confusion over Cholesterol Testing - Dec 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Physician Work Stoppages as Activism - Jan 04
Pediatrics
Susto: Acknowledging Patients' Beliefs about Illness - Aug 07
Diagnostic Testing for Diseases in the News - Mar 07
Testing Minors for Breast Cancer - Jan 07
Pediatric Primary Care in the ER: Is It Better than Waiting for an Appointment? - Nov 06
Parental Influence on Level of Functioning in a Child with Down Syndrome - Oct 06
The Desperate Parent and the Lure of Experimental Treatment - Oct 06
Coping with a Child's Conduct Disorder - Oct 06
Obesity in Kids: When Appeals to Vanity Fail - Oct 06
Unnecessary Antibiotics - Jun 06
Treating Short Stature with Growth Hormone - Nov 05
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
Drug Testing in Adolescents - Mar 05
Limits of Youth Sports Training - Jul 04
A Fever of Unknown Source - Dec 04
Faith-Based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for Their Children - Aug 03
Spare the Rod and Save the Child - Aug 03
Obesity as Medical Neglect: Should Doctors Report? - Aug 03
Palliative Care for an Infant with Short Bowel Syndrome and Advanced Liver Disease - Aug 03
Peer reporting
Peer Reporting of Suspected Physician Misconduct - Apr 04
Physician activism
Lead Paint Dangers and Physician Advocacy - Dec 05
Obtaining Asylum from Partner Abuse: the Physician's Role - Sep 04
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
Physician Work Stoppages as Activism - Jan 04
Physician Activism and Civil Disobedience - Jan 04
Physician-assisted suicide
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation - May 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Myths and Misconceptions about Palliative Sedation - Sep 06
Physicians' Role in Physician-Assisted Suicide Discussions - Aug 04
Physician burnout
Competing for the Physician's Attention after Hours - Jul 07
Can Healers Have Private Lives? - Jul 06
The Tale of Dr Wells: Competent and Irascible - Sep 03
Managed Care and Physician Burnout - Sep 03
Physician as healers
Competing for the Physician's Attention after Hours - Jul 07
Can Healers Have Private Lives? - Jul 06
Can There Be Healing without Trust? - Jul 06
Putting It All Together--the Art and Science of Medicine - Jul 06
Physician impairment
Problem Peers - Mar 04
The Tale of Dr Wells: Competent and Irascible - Sep 03
An Impaired Physician's Physician - Sep 03
An Impaired Resident - Mar 03
Physicians in public roles
Role of Schools in Monitoring Student Health - Dec 07
Communicable Disease and Immigration Fears - Dec 07
Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases - Dec 05
Lead Paint Dangers and Physician Advocacy - Dec 05
New York Super-AIDS Case: Physician as Public Health Officer - Dec 05
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
Prescribing
Negotiating Parental Requests for Medication - Jun 07
Pragmatic Principles of Pharmaceutical Donation - Dec 06
Prescribing a Teratogenic Medication - Aug 06
Unnecessary Antibiotics - Jun 06
Hidden Costs of Free Samples - Jun 06
The Gift-Giving Influence - Jun 06
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Treating Short Stature with Growth Hormone - Nov 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Splitting the Difference--Patient Preference versus Conservation of Resources - Jun 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Medicine for Malcolm - Oct 03
Drugs for the Shy? - Oct 03
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
Professionalism
Avoiding Disincentives to Treat in Designing Pay-for-Performance Measures - Jul 07
Competing for the Physician's Attention after Hours - Jul 07
The Many Functions of Clinical Rounds - Apr 07
When Doctors Disagree - Sep 06
Communication Failure in the ICU - Sep 06
Can Healers Have Private Lives? - Jul 06
Can There Be Healing without Trust? - Jul 06
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
Frame Feedback to Improve Professional Performance - Aug 05
Following the Golden Rule toward Respectful Relationships - Aug 05
Responding to Insensitive Remarks about a Patient - Aug 05
A Case of Student Cheating - Apr 05
Drinks During Lunch - Apr 05
Resident Work Hour Restrictions - Apr 05
Board Certification as Prerequisite for Hospital Staff Privileges - Apr 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
Never Symptom-Free - Apr 03
Psychiatry
Duty to Warn and Dissociative Identity Disorder - Mar 08
Psychosomatic Elaboration of Distress - Mar 08
Correctional Mental Health - Feb 08
Negotiating Parental Requests for Medication - Jun 07
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
How Good Is Good Enough? - Jul 05
The Evangelizing Patient - May 05
Drugs for the Shy? - Oct 03
Psychiatrist's Role in Involuntary Hospitalization - Oct 03
Confidentiality of Patient Records Requested by the Court - Oct 03
Medicine for Malcolm - Oct 03
The Tale of Dr Wells: Competent and Irascible - Sep 03
Public health
Role of Schools in Monitoring Student Health - Dec 07
Smoking and Medicaid Benefits - Dec 07
Communicable Disease and Immigration Fears - Dec 07
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
Pragmatic Principles of Pharmaceutical Donation - Dec 06
Clinical Awareness of Occupation-Related Toxic Exposure - Nov 06
Unnecessary Antibiotics - Jun 06
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
"I'm Sorry but You Can't Leave": Patients, Physicians, and Quarantine - Apr 06
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Physician in Time of Crisis - Apr 06
Changing the Rules in Times of Crisis: Do Desperate Times Allow Desperate Measures? - Apr 06
New York Super-AIDS Case: Physician as Public Health Officer - Dec 05
Lead Paint Dangers and Physician Advocacy - Dec 05
Universal Precautions - Oct 05
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Disaster Triage - May 04
Physician Activism and Civil Disobedience - Jan 04
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Asking Patients about Intimate Partner Abuse - Nov 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Quality of care
Disclosure and the Retrospectoscope - Nov 07
Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients - Nov 06
Can Healers Have Private Lives? - Jul 06
Can There Be Healing without Trust? - Jul 06
Unnecessary Antibiotics - Jun 06
Stigmatized Patients' Right to Equal Treatment - May 06
Board Certification as Prerequisite for Hospital Staff Privileges - Apr 05
Confusion over Cholesterol Testing - Dec 04
A Fever of Unknown Source - Dec 04
The Reluctant Resident - Oct 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
Disaster Triage - May 04
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Managed Care and Physician Burnout - Sep 03
Quality of life
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Is the Surgery Necessary Now? The Surgeon's Conflict of Interest - Jul 07
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Helping Patients Decide Whether to Participate in Clinical Trials - Jan 07
Parental Influence on Level of Functioning in a Child with Down Syndrome - Oct 06
Discussing Code Status with Patients and Their Families - Sep 06
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Ethics Consultation and Clinical Expertise - Feb 06
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for ALS - Jan 06
Treating Short Stature with Growth Hormone - Nov 05
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Quality of Life and Prenatal Decisions - Feb 05
Optional Treatments and Quality of Life - Feb 05
Helping the Patient Achieve Quality-of-Life Goals - Feb 05
Clinical Trials and End-of-Life Decision Making - Nov 04
Palliative Surgery - Oct 04
Finding the Balance in Shared Decision Making - Feb 04
Ventilator Withdrawal of Patients with "Zero Capability" for Respiratory Function - Jan 03
Refusal to treat
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Never Symptom-Free - Apr 03
Reproductive rights
Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere - Sep 07
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons - Jun 07
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Paternalism - Feb 04
Campaign Posters in the Clinic - Jan 04
Retainer practice
Retainer Practice: Scientific, Social Justice, and Ethical Perspectives - Apr 04
"Concierge" Practice and the Profession's Contract with Society - Nov 03
Residency
Self-Interest versus Friendship in Medical School - Apr 07
The Gift-Giving Influence - Jun 06
Prescribing Placebos - Jun 06
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
Resident Work Hour Restrictions - Apr 05
The Reluctant Resident - Oct 04
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Disagreement over Error Disclosure - Mar 04
Problem Peers - Mar 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
Drug Company Sponsorship of Clinical Conferences - Jul 03
An Impaired Resident - Mar 03
Scope of practice
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 06
How Good Is Good Enough? - Jul 05
Screening
Guiding Patients toward Prudent Use of Technologies - Feb 07
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
Testing Minors for Breast Cancer - Jan 07
Autonomy and Public Health: When the Patient Is a Physician - Apr 06
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
Breast Cancer Screening - Jan 06
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for ALS - Jan 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
Informed Refusal - Jan 06
Preoperative Screening: Medical or Legal Guidelines? - Dec 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
Self-regulation
Fudging an Answer during Clinical Rounds - Apr 07
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
A Case of Student Cheating - Apr 05
Drinks During Lunch - Apr 05
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide - Jun 04
Peer Reporting of Suspected Physician Misconduct - Apr 04
An Impaired Physician's Physician - Sep 03
Sexuality
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
Too Much Information? - Oct 05
Sexually transmitted diseases
Physician Values and Clinical Decision Making - May 06
New York Super-AIDS Case: Physician as Public Health Officer - Dec 05
The Wayward Husband - Oct 05
Too Much Information? - Oct 05
Universal Precautions - Oct 05
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Patient Counseling and Matters of Conscience - May 05
Please Don't Say Anything: Partner Notification and the Patient-Physician Relationship - Nov 03
Gynecological Care for Adolescents - May 03
Shared decision making
Decision Making in a Case of Personality Change - Mar 08
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Physicians' Dual Loyalties - Jun 05
Patient Counseling and Matters of Conscience - May 05
Helping the Patient Achieve Quality-of-Life Goals - Feb 05
Reproductive Rights - Sep 04
Sports medicine
Limits of Youth Sports Training - Jul 04
Exercise Addiction - Jul 04
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Jul 04
Standard of care
Pregnant Women and Cervical Cancer: Balancing Best Interest of Mother and Fetus - Sep 07
Is Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Extraordinary Care? - May 07
Diagnostic Testing for Diseases in the News - Mar 07
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
Breast Cancer Screening - Jan 06
How Good Is Good Enough? - Jul 05
A Fever of Unknown Source - Dec 04
Confusion over Cholesterol Testing - Dec 04
Preoperative Screening: Medical or Legal Guidelines? - Dec 04
HMO-Dictated Patient Discharge - Mar 04
Student participation in care
Medical Student in the Middle: How Much Can Students Tell Patient? - Jan 07
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 2006 -
The Reluctant Resident - Oct 04
Student Role in Discussion of Diagnosis with Patients - Dec 03
See One, Do One, Teach One: Competence versus Confidence in Performing Procedures - Dec 200
Surgery
Pregnant Women and Cervical Cancer: Balancing Best Interest of Mother and Fetus - Sep 07
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Is the Surgery Necessary Now? The Surgeon's Conflict of Interest - Jul 07
Cosmetic Surgery: When Fifty Doesn't Feel Fabulous - Jun 07
The Question of Uterine Isolation in Catholic Health Care Ethics - May 07
Hospital Reputation and Individual Patient Decisions - Mar 07
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Drinks During Lunch - Apr 05
The Unnoticed Mole - Oct 04
The Reluctant Resident - Oct 04
Palliative Surgery - Oct 04
Surrogate decison making
Decision Making in a Case of Personality Change - Mar 08
Who Decides, Patient or Family? - Aug 07
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Nov 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Helping the Patient Achieve Quality-of-Life Goals - Feb 05
Finding the Balance in Shared Decision Making - Feb 04
Technology
Ethics of Cutting-Edge Device Research - Feb 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Guiding Patients toward Prudent Use of Technologies - Feb 07
Telemedicine
Outsourcing: A Limited View of Radiology’s Role - Nov 07
Terrorism
Physicians' Duties in Treating Wartime Detainees - Oct 07
"I'm Sorry but You Can't Leave": Patients, Physicians, and Quarantine - Apr 06
Duty to Treat versus Personal Safety - May 04
Disaster Triage - May 04
Request for Unnecessary Prophylaxis - May 04
Unnecessary tests
Diagnostic Testing for Diseases in the News - Mar 07
Risks and Benefits of the New Medical Imaging Enterprise - Feb 07
Guiding Patients toward Prudent Use of Technologies - Feb 07
Testing Minors for Breast Cancer - Jan 07
To Scan or Not To Scan? - Mar 06
Patient-Requested, Non-Recommended Screening - Jan 06
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for ALS - Jan 06
Preoperative Screening: Medical or Legal Guidelines? - Dec 04
Exercise Addiction - Jul 04
Unnecessary Tests and Ethics of Quality of Care - Jun 04
Never Symptom-Free - Apr 03
Volunteering
Limits on Student Participation in Patient Care in Foreign Medical Brigades - Dec 06
Pragmatic Principles of Pharmaceutical Donation - Dec 06
Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions - Dec 06
Caring for the Poor -- What Can One Doctor Do? - Sep 04
Withholding and withdrawing treatment
An ER Decision To Withhold CPR - Mar 07
Turning Off an Implanted Life-Saving Device - Feb 07
Discussing Code Status with Patients and Their Families - Sep 06
Communication Failure in the ICU - Sep 06
Disagreement over Resuscitation - May 06
Myths and Misconceptions about Palliative Sedation - Sep 06
Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases - Dec 05
End of Life and Sanctity of Life - May 05
Palliative Care for an Infant with Short Bowel Syndrome and Advanced Liver Disease - Aug 03
Balancing Parental Wishes with Medical Judgment - Jan 03
Ventilator Withdrawal of Patients with "Zero Capability" for Respiratory Function - Jan 03
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