When deciding whether a pregnant woman will take antidepressants that pose a slight risk to the fetus, the patient and doctor must each make value-based determinations about whether absolute protection of the fetus is more important than preventing the mother’s probable suffering.

Professional obligation should override personal values when it comes to providing legal medical services.

With good planning and good will, medical professionals’ right of conscience and patients’ rights to controversial services can be both protected and accommodated.

There are many challenges that need to be overcome before a regulating body can be established to oversee surgical procedures and devices.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that physician-assisted suicide is a matter of states' rights, there are many ethical and legal issues still unresolved for physicians.

Physicians have an ethical duty to provide safe and effective care to patients even when the care conflicts with their own personal values.

Physicians have an ethical duty to provide safe and effective care to patients even when the care conflicts with their own personal values.

Media coverage, proposed legislation, and lexicons influence how the general public views and defines genetic cloning.

The use of in vitro fertilization has resulted in excess frozen embryos, whose fate has yet to be determined due to the absence of legislation or regulation.

Medical professionals can take a more thorough patient medical history with the assistance of pedigree software and other tools designed to assess genetic risk.