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

Putting the interest of patients first means attending to what the patient thinks is most important as well as treating medically significant symptoms and conditions.

Putting the interest of patients first means attending to what the patient thinks is most important as well as treating medically significant symptoms and conditions.

Should physicians engage beliefs and practices that do not agree with their medical judgment as a means to securing patient adherence to recommended treatment?

Managing mistreatment of medical students and others in the learning environment.

Primary care physicians can help hospitalists plan end-of-life conversations with patients or patients’ families.

After the infant’s birth, the neonatologist’s first duty is to his or her patient—the newly born infant. If clinical circumstances are different than anticipated, the physician must first consider the best interests of the baby.

Clinical facts and physicians’ ethical obligations are critical in resolving disagreements between parents and physicians about resuscitation of an extremely premature infant.

Guidelines exist for delivery-room treatment for newborns at the margins of viability, and when the rules and limits are reached, parental values are important.

Guidelines exist for delivery-room treatment for newborns at the margins of viability, and when the rules and limits are reached, parental values are important.