When a public health risk exists, a physician's obligations to warn those in potential danger overrides rules of patient confidentiality.

Physicians need to properly screen their patients for intimate partner abuse and provide referrals for support and counseling.

When a public health risk exists, a physician's obligations to warn those in potential danger overrides rules of patient confidentiality.

Physicians need to properly screen their patients for intimate partner abuse and provide referrals for support and counseling.

Physicians are obligated in many jurisdictions to perform life-sustaining treatments on premature infants with serious developmental or physical impairments, even if it goes against the parents' wishes.

Physicians have an obligation to report parents to the local Child Protective Services if they suspect that the parents are using corporal punishment as a form of discipline.

Physicians need to understand the resources available to them to serve the sometimes conflicting needs of the pediatric patients' best interest and the religious beliefs of the patients' parents.

Physicians have an obligation to report parents to the local Child Protective Services if they suspect that the parents are using corporal punishment as a form of discipline.

Physicians need to understand the resources available to them to serve the sometimes conflicting needs of the pediatric patients' best interest and the religious beliefs of the patients' parents.

Argues that non-adherence on a patient's part does not erase physician responsibility and examines how best to provide care for a non-adherent patient.