Steps in diagnosing mycobacterial pulmonary tuberculosis and its management.

The social institutions of medicine and the state have a complex history of interaction in which doctors have been the originators of political ideals, goals, and social change but equally often have found themselves to be instruments of political authority.

The physician’s duty to care for the individual patient often conflicts with the state’s duty to attend to the safety and well-being of all its citizens, a conflict that can pose ethical challenges for the physician.

Fictional narrative of a physician who decides to leave the state for safety with his pregnant wife and son when a flu epidemic breaks out.

State laws often require physicians to report suspected abuse and assault, creating a dilemma for physicians who must not only treat the injured patient but act as an informant to police.

Ethical implications of the Medicaid plan in West Virginia that offers enhanced benefits packages to those who sign contracts to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Physicians must balance competing ethical concerns when undocumented immigrants need health care for a communicable disease.

To combat the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes, New York City requires laboratories with electronic reporting capacity to upload data on hemoglobin A1c measurements to a city department of health registry.

A brief history of public opposition to disease surveillance in the U.S., despite the documented success of this tool in recognizing and managing threats to public health.

In a study of New York physicians' compliance with reporting of communicable diseases, surveyed physicians responded better to legal warnings than to requests that explained public health benefits.