Strategies for preventing and detecting mistreatment of the elderly through neglect or abuse are offered.

Physicians’ ethical obligation to ensure communities’ access to safe drinking water has roots in their expertise, social authority, and role as mediators.

Physicians are encouraged not to breach confidentiality by disclosing a patient's genetic information to their offspring or other family members.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics opinions related to discrimination and disparities in health care.

Physicians have a professional obligation and, in many states, a legal duty to report drivers whose functional or cognitive impairments may pose a safety hazard.

Fictional narrative of a physician who decides to leave the state for safety with his pregnant wife and son when a flu epidemic breaks out.

To combat the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes, New York City requires laboratories with electronic reporting capacity to upload data on hemoglobin A1c measurements to a city department of health registry.

Many physicians assist others at great risk to their personal safety as part of Physicians for Human Rights.

Giving undocumented immigrants and those with DACA status (DREAMers) access to health care and medical education enables them to contribute to these systems.

Many physicians find it difficult to accept uninsured or Medicaid patients due to low level or lack of reimbursement.