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Mar 2009

Ethics Talk: The Web-Savvy Patient

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Today's patients are better informed about possible causes and treatments for their symptoms than ever before. A physician works through a challenging encounter with a patient who comes to her office demanding a particular brand name drug and will accept nothing less--or so it seems at first.

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Patient-Physician Relationships: Gone or Evolving?

Anji Wall
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Low-Tech Solution to a High-Tech Problem

David Anthony, MD, MSc
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Case and Commentary

Is There a Duty to Inform Patients of Phase I Trials? Commentary 1

Courtenay R. Bruce, JD and Anne Lederman Flamm, JD
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Case and Commentary

Is There a Duty to Inform Patients of Phase I Trials? Commentary 2

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, MA and Philip M. Rosoff, MD, MA
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