How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?

As larger organizations become more influential in the health care sector, the Code can help physicians navigate those organizations’ influence on their practices.

Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions.

Even disclosed conflicts of interest can be dangerous in health care settings, but disclosure might not be the panacea many seem to take it to be.

Corporatization in health care has complicated clinicians’ and organizations’ efforts to balance interests of individual patients against an organization’s bottom line.

Key policy changes would better situate clinicians to prescribe care in ways that are ethical, safe, and effective.

During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court.

Professor Leonard Rubenstein joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Rohini Haar: “What Does Ethics Demand of Health Care Practice in Conflict Zones?”

Traditional clinical and public health ethical obligations are insufficient for practice under attack, threat, and coercion or amidst civilian abuse.