A case that explores whether it is coercive and inappropriate for an attending physician to request that a female medical student volunteer so that other students can practice performing pelvic examinations.
An ethical case explores whether it's appropriate for a resident who was exposed to TB to discontinue his treatment regimen and potentially expose his colleagues and patients.
Readers are referred to an article by J.T. Berger in a 1998 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine and provided with a list of ethical questions to consider about culture and ethnicity in clinical care.