Reconnecting to Essential Ideals

Fostering Trust in the Patient-Physician Relationship

Caring for Poor and Vulnerable Populations

Reconnecting to Essential Ideals

Strengthening the Social Contract

An ethical case explores whether a physician who wants to terminate his professional relationship with a noncompliant hemodialysis patient has an obligation to treat the patient if the patient has a disability.

An attending physician in an urban teaching hospital faces an ethical dilemma when a mother refused to allow an African American medical student to examine her child.

Hateful and bigoted patients, on the other hand, severely test a physician's objectivity and sense of justice.

A Peace Corps physician working in Africa describes in his latest online journal entry that one of the most difficult challenges of his job is maintaining physician confidentiality when treating volunteers who knowingly engage in behaviors that put other people's health at risk.

The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs reports how the AMA's Code of Medical Ethics has evolved over the years to provide two opinions that address which patients physicians have the right to choose to serve and when physicians can terminate a therapeutic relationship.