The convening power of clinical ethics committees stems from their reputation for fairness and procedural legitimacy in addressing and resolving ethically complex cases.

Physicians must stay up-to-date on changes in clinical treatment guidelines.

Physicians must stay up-to-date on changes in clinical treatment guidelines.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Expressing political views in a professional setting can be detrimental to the patient-physician relationship.

Physicians need to help surrogate decision makers to make treatment and end-of-life decisions for those with severe neurological damage by proving a realistic prognosis and maintain strong lines of communication.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics opinions related to ethics consultations and ethics committees in health care institutions.

An ethical case explores medical decision making in the absence of the consent of an elderly woman who is partially impaired by a stroke.

An ethical case explores medical decision making in the absence of the consent of an elderly woman who is partially impaired by a stroke.

An ethical case explores whether a medical student doing a radiology rotation has a duty to inform a patient whose chest x-ray shows bony metastases that was not caught by the original radiologist or mentioned in the ED chart.