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Financial Barriers to Health Care Access

Physicians have an ethical responsibility to ensure that all persons have access to needed care regardless of their economic means.

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Allocating Limited Health Care Resources

Physicians have a responsibility to contribute their expertise to developing allocation policies that are fair and safeguard the welfare of patients.

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Defining Basic Health Care

Physicians, individually and collectively, should advocate for fair, informed decision making about basic health care.

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Contracts to Deliver Health Care Services

Physicians have a fundamental ethical obligation to put the welfare of patients ahead of other considerations, including personal financial interests.

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What motivates physicians--and how health care needs to change

Studies show physicians are more motivated by intrinsic values that uniquely define the profession rather than external values, such as financial rewards.A recent Viewpoint on professionalism discusses how the health care needs to change from one that is governed by burdensome financial regulations to one that gives physicians what they need to provide the highest quality care.

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Restrictive Covenants

Covenants-not-to-compete restrict competition, can disrupt continuity of care and may limit access to care.

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Ethical considerations in the evolving health care ecosystem

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics was created in 1847 before the outbreak of the American Civil War, the invention of the telegraph and the standardization of indoor plumbing. In its more than 160 years guiding physicians in the enduring values of ethics and medicine, the Code has seen a lot of...

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