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Measuring moral choices by physicians: Standing up for patients

Standing up for what’s best for patients tests a physician’s moral courage. Study measures choices interns and residents make when faced with threats, concerns about evaluations, and risk to reputations.

Ethics
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Telemedicine prompts new ethical ground rules for physicians

With the increasing use of telemedicine, delegates at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting adopted new policy that outlines ethical ground rules for physicians using these technologies to treat patients.

Digital
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AMA adopts new guidance for ethical practice in telemedicine

Ethical guidance is adopted at the AMA's Annual Meeting regarding physicians' interactions with patients via telemedicine.

Press Releases
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Applying medical ethics to the modern practice

How will the modern practice of medicine be affected by the availability of personal information online, patient use of smartphones in the exam room and rapidly diversifying cultures in the patient population? What are the ethical implication for physicians?

Ethics
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Physician Exercise of Conscience

Physicians may be able to act (or refrain from acting) in accordance with the dictates of their conscience without violating their professional obligations.

Ethics
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Doctors debate care continuity, competence at ethics forum

Physicians had the chance to share their opinions on continuity of care in complex health care systems and the ethical obligation to provide competent care during an open forum of the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA).

Ethics
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Physicians vote to exercise conscience in medical care

Physicians voted in favor of new policies during the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting in Dallas, focusing on physicians’ exercise of conscience and physician civil discourse. Also adopted was policy outlined in a report by the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs on physicians’ exercise of conscience.

Ethics