Get guidance on ethics decisions

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Use the physician standard for medical professionalism, the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, to help you make informed decisions on important ethics topics.

The 2014-2015 hard copy edition of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers valuable guidance through more than 200 ethical opinions, including:

  • Physician obligation in disaster preparedness and response
  • Research with stem cells
  • Transplantation of organs from living donors
  • Professionalism in the use of social media
  • Routine universal immunization for physicians for vaccine-preventable disease

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