The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to responding to violence.

Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling.

Research is often conducted without the knowledge or consent of those whose tissues are banked and poses possible harms to social groups if information about a few members is unscientifically applied to all.

Volk v DeMeerleer may conflict with professional guidelines regarding physicians’ obligations to breach patient confidentiality to protect third parties.

Two things clinicians should be aware of are gag laws and background check laws for gun transfers and safe gun storage.

Chromosomal microarray analysis reveals many gene variants of unknown significance. The uncertainty about these variants—might they be deleterious or are they benign?—complicates genetic counseling.

Today, much of the information that doctors gain during medical school and residency can be accessed by patients at the click of a mouse.

Asking for forgiveness may be oppressive to a patient or family still grappling with the fact of the harm, the impact of the harm, and their own emotional response to the harm.

When mandatory reporting of risk of violence is not required, physicians should balance patient autonomy and beneficence with patient and public safety.

Gatekeepers of gun privileges is not an appropriate role for physicians since there is no objective test of fitness for gun ownership or possession.