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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.
Sexual relationships between medical supervisors and trainees are not acceptable, even if consensual.
As in all patient-physician relationships, the physician’s primary concern must be the well-being of the patient.
Sexual or romantic interactions between physicians and third parties may detract from the goals of the patient-physician relationship.
A physician must terminate the patient-physician relationship before initiating a dating, romantic or sexual relationship with a patient.
Organ donation in these circumstances raises concerns about the accuracy of diagnosis and the potential implications for other individuals.
Collection and storage of cord blood raise ethical concerns with regard to patient safety, autonomy and potential for conflict of interest.
Physicians could proceed with organ procurement based on mandated choice only after verifying that the individual’s consent to donate was documented.
Offering financial incentives for donation raises ethical concerns about potential coercion, the voluntariness of decisions to donate.
Donation after cardiac death raises a number of special ethical concerns, including how and when death is declared.
