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Medical ethics provide physicians a moral framework for the practice of clinical medicine. Here's how the AMA is promoting awareness of, and adherence to, medical ethics.
A patient who has decision-making capacity appropriate to the decision at hand has the right to decline any medical intervention.
An advance directive never takes precedence over the contemporaneous wishes of a patient who has decision-making capacity.
Physicians must uphold their primary professional obligation of fidelity and their responsibility to treat all patients with courtesy, respect and dignity.
Physicians have an obligation to inform patients about all appropriate treatment options, including the risks and benefits of alternatives.
Under no circumstances may physicians place their own financial interests above the welfare of their patients.
A physician may perform an abortion in accordance with good medical practice and under circumstances that do not violate the law.
Reproductive cloning has the potential to be used in a eugenic or discriminatory fashion—practices that are incompatible with the ethical norms of medicine.
Ethical concerns arise regarding who has authority to make decisions about stored embryos and what kinds of choices they may ethically make.
Physicians have an ethical obligation to take appropriate action to avert the harms caused by violence and abuse.
