Physicians can maintain a balance between professional and personal obligations by having a well-organized practice and honest communication with patients.
The concept stewardship borrows from collective action problems that cannot be solved by individuals only, just like those discussed in environmental ethics.
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Health practitioners can help reduce health disparities if they consider the implications and affect that patients' geographical location has on their health.
The history of the AMA's policy on anencephalic newborns as organ donors is a living example of what medical science can do sometimes conflicts with society's support or nonsupport of those possibilities.