Does a physician who observes a colleague acting unprofessionally have a duty to speak to that colleague about the unprofessional behavior?

Does a physician who observes a colleague acting unprofessionally have a duty to speak to that colleague about the unprofessional behavior?

We should conduct empirical research to better understand how patients, parents, clinicians, and others grapple with the ethical challenges we confront when caring for children who are dying.

Some argue for universal, opt-out screening for HIV in health care settings.

Using the patient’s worldview to challenge his or her decision and establish a treatment plan—implying the view is shared by the physician when it is not—could be seen as manipulative and deceptive.

Physicians who have adequately informed a competent patient of his or her diagnosis, its meaning, and medically appropriate options should then accept the patient’s informed consent or refusal of treatment.

Respecting another’s religious beliefs does not compel us to accept that those beliefs have been examined and are autonomously espoused. We come to hold beliefs in a multitude of ways, not all of which are fully informed and uncoerced.

Physicians must ask themselves ethical questions before recommending participation in phase I trials to patients.

Physicians must ask themselves ethical questions before recommending participation in phase I trials to patients.

Approximately two-thirds of men aged 50 and older diagnosed REM sleep behavior disorder develop neurologic disease, for which there is no prevention or treatment at present.