The AMA is encouraging patients to ask their physicians about vaccination, which is one of the most effective ways to protect your family’s health.
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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.
Physicians who serve in a medical capacity at athletic, sporting, or other physically demanding events should protect the health and safety of participants.
Self-referral arrangements can undermine a robust commitment to professionalism in medicine as well as trust in the profession.
Having chaperones present can help prevent misunderstandings between patient and physician.
Physicians should consider whether they should offer diagnostic imaging services that are not scientifically validated or without a physician referral.
Direct-to-consumer advertising carries the risk of creating unrealistic expectations for patients and conflicts of interest for physicians.
Physicians' ethical responsibility is to their patient’s interests as prescribers and dispensers of drugs and devices.
The sale of non-health-related goods presents a conflict of interest and threatens to erode the primary obligation of physicians to their patients.
Physicians who choose to sell health-related products from their offices or through their office website or other online venues have ethical obligations.
Physicians’ fiduciary obligation to promote patients’ best interests and welfare can include consulting other physicians for advice.
