Physicians should not write prescriptions for unnecessary prophylaxis in response to patients' anxiety about a perceived threat of bioterrorism.

Two physicians argue that disaster preparedness for bioterrorist attacks diverts health care resources from other critical medical and public health needs.

A bioethicist discusses how the need for patient autonomy and patients' rights can be fulfilled through strong patient-physician communication.

Rules of managed health care and the demand for high physician productivity have harmed patients' ability to make informed, autonomous decisions.

An overview of the origins of the social contract between physicians and society, with expectations and demands on both parties.

A social contract between the medical profession and society has an ethical imperative to provide accessible health care to all.

Physicians of patients who request physician-assisted suicide should not avoid the subject and should try to discuss the patients' specific concerns and fears with them.

Physicians of patients who request physician-assisted suicide should not avoid the subject and should try to discuss the patients' specific concerns and fears with them.

A neglected topic in medical ethics is the unique barriers to error disclosure faced by anatomic and clinical pathologists.

Does a patient’s request not to have a diagnosis included in her health record undermine a clinician’s capacity to provide clinically and ethically appropriate treatment?