Professional obligation should override personal values when it comes to providing legal medical services.

When a child or family begins to stand out because of patterns in history or physical findings, physicians must determine whether to take a closer look at the situation.

The Drexel University College of Medicine Women’s Health Education Program is a model for training medical students to screen for and respond to intimate partner violence.

The risks associated with mandated physician reporting of intimate partner violence outweigh the benefits such a policy might confer.

Guidelines for physicians who have a duty to report their suspicions of child abuse.

Physicians need to properly screen their patients for intimate partner abuse and provide referrals for support and counseling.

Physicians need to properly screen their patients for intimate partner abuse and provide referrals for support and counseling.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

Patients can use Internet sources to select physicians; physicians who use patient databases to select or reject patients, however, cross a professional-ethical boundary.