The use of simulated patients in medical education helps students to develop communication skills needed to interact with patients when difficult circumstances arise.

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

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.

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

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

Physicians who change their practices to concierge medicine may lose valuable patient-physician relationships.

The authors of a 1995 Archives of Internal Medicine article assert that physicians should engage in bedside rationing in order to contain rising health care costs, while some ethicists oppose the practice on the basis that it will disrupt the essential trust between patient and physician.

Ethical and legal questions arise when public health research that provides a benefit to society at large can potentially cause harm to the subjects.

The influenza vaccine is recommended for many population groups and can help prevent serious complications.