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Advance Directives: Family Members Disagree about Patient Care

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Motherhood at an Advanced Age

Breaking Bad News: A Diagnosis of Cancer

Communicable Diseases: Disclosing an HIV Infection

Confidentiality : A Family’s Secrets

Contraception and Birth Prevention

Difficult Patients : Uncooperative and Hostile Patient

Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Orders : Why Patients Sometimes Resist Planning Future Medical Care

Duty to Treat : Duty to Patients who cannot Pay

Ethical Analysis : Consent and Refusal in Testing

Ethics Consultation / Ethics Committees : When to Ask for Help

Genetic Testing : When Testing Discloses Non-Paternity

Gifts : Is this Payment Appropriate?

Informed Consent : Does She Know She’s Sick?

Legal Duties of Physicians : An Impaired Physician?

Maternal – Physician Conflicts : A Dispute about Prenatal Diagnosis

Medical Student Ethical Issues : Unwanted Conversations about Sex

Mistakes : Disclosing a Mistake

Physician-Assisted Suicide : Time for an End to Treatment?

Withdrawal and Limitation of Treatment : Refusing Emergency Treatment

Prenatal Testing and Counseling : Choosing A Childs Gender

Research with Human Beings : Information Overdose

Surrogate Decision-Making : Confused Patient Choices

Truth-Telling : Keeping Secrets from Patients