Dr Olivia Kates talks about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Law doesn’t always adequately address unauthorized uses of individuals’ DNA. Ethics can help establish legal privacy protections that work.

An emerging medical ethics issue is whether to delay posting pathology reports to electronic health records (EHR) to allow clinicians time to follow up.

The American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards’ guidelines for online medical professionalism apply existing norms of communication and confidentiality to new settings but will need to be modified in light of technological advances and unanswered questions.

An effective policy regarding retail clinics in a primary care practice should address patients' need for timely and convenient acute care and build capacity for enhanced access to acute care within the primary care clinic itself.

Little-known trivia about the use of digital technology.

A corporate executive diagnosed with prostate cancer chooses his own preferred course of treatment based on information he researched on the Internet.

Patients are entering the clinical encounter with an unprecedented amount of information gathered from various sources, including the Internet.

The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on the use of databanks in genomic research requires informed consent by groups and individuals who are subjects of research.