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Advance Directives

An advance directive never takes precedence over the contemporaneous wishes of a patient who has decision-making capacity.

Ethics
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Retainer Practices

Physicians must uphold their primary professional obligation of fidelity and their responsibility to treat all patients with courtesy, respect and dignity.

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Transparency in Health Care

Physicians have an obligation to inform patients about all appropriate treatment options, including the risks and benefits of alternatives.

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Conflicts of Interest in Patient Care

Under no circumstances may physicians place their own financial interests above the welfare of their patients.

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Abortion

A physician may perform an abortion in accordance with good medical practice and under circumstances that do not violate the law.

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Cloning for Reproduction

Reproductive cloning has the potential to be used in a eugenic or discriminatory fashion—practices that are incompatible with the ethical norms of medicine.

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Storage & Use of Human Embryos

Ethical concerns arise regarding who has authority to make decisions about stored embryos and what kinds of choices they may ethically make.

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Preventing, Identifying & Treating Violence & Abuse

Physicians have an ethical obligation to take appropriate action to avert the harms caused by violence and abuse.

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Third-Party Reproduction

Third-party reproduction is a form of assisted reproduction in which a woman agrees to bear a child and relinquish the child to other individuals to rear.

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