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Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics | p. 3 |
Informed Consent and Disclosure | p. 12 |
Painted Into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah's Witness | p. 17 |
A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery | p. 24 |
Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording | p. 26 |
Disclosure of Intraoperative Error | p. 29 |
The Public's Right to Know? Surgical Treatment of Public Figures | p. 32 |
Religiously Based Emergency Treatment Refusal | p. 35 |
Consent for Residents to Perform Surgery | p. 37 |
The Shifting Sands of Senility: Canceled Consent | p. 40 |
A Surgeon's Obligation to a Jehovah's Witness Child | p. 44 |
Are Ethics Practical When Externals Impact Your Clinical Judgment? | p. 47 |
Professional Self-Regulation | p. 52 |
What To Tell Patients Harmed By Other Physicians | p. 55 |
The Military Physician's Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture | p. 59 |
Who Should Protect the Public Against Bad Doctors? | p. 64 |
Disagreements Between Attending and Consultant Physicians | p. 71 |
Turf Wars: The Ethics of Professional Territorialism | p. 74 |
Eyewitness to Incompetent Surgery | p. 80 |
Ethics of Operative Scheduling: Balancing Multiple Fiduciary Responsibilities | p. 82 |
Do Unto Others: Justice in Surgical Education | p. 85 |
The Surgeon's Obligations to the Noncompliant Patient | p. 88 |
The Ethics of Serving as a Plaintiff's Expert Medical Witness | p. 92 |
Standard of Care: What Does It Really Mean? | p. 96 |
Innovation and Research | p. 101 |
When does Conventional Surgical Therapy Become Research? | p. 106 |
A Surgeon's Obligations When Performing New Procedures | p. 108 |
The Ethics of Innovative Surgical Approaches for Well-Established Procedures | p. 111 |
Using Surgical Innovation to Treat Rare Diseases | p. 116 |
Ethics of Introducing New Operating Room Technology | p. 120 |
Patenting Surgical Procedures | p. 124 |
Sham Surgery in Research | p. 127 |
Stem Cell Research: Obligations When Religious Values Conflict with Professional Values | p. 130 |
Ethics of Odd Ideas, Good Science, and Academic Freedom | p. 135 |
The Ethics of By-Lines: Would the Real Authors Please Stand Up? | p. 140 |
When the Data Won't Get You There: The Ethics of Scientific Error, and Worse | p. 145 |
Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment | p. 150 |
Intentional Overtreatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of Interest | p. 152 |
Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities | p. 157 |
Nonfinancial Conflicts of Interest | p. 160 |
Ethics of Overscheduling: When Enough Becomes Too Much | p. 163 |
An Impaired Surgeon and Supervisory Responsibilities | p. 167 |
Surgeon-Industry Relationships: Ethically Responsible Management of Conflicts of Interest | p. 170 |
Relationship Funding of Professional Foundations: Just a New Black Sheep? | p. 173 |
When to Refer to Another Surgeon | p. 178 |
HIV Infection, Professional Responsibility, and Self-Interest | p. 180 |
Ethics of Combining Romance with Medical Practice | p. 183 |
Ethics of Operating on a Family Member | p. 187 |
The Ethics of Surgery as a Business | p. 192 |
Show Me the Money: The Ethics of Physicians' Income | p. 195 |
Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians | p. 201 |
Ethics of Boutique Medical Practice | p. 204 |
Ethics and Commercial Insurance | p. 208 |
Ethics of Clinical Pathways and Cost Control | p. 212 |
Ethics of Professional Courtesy | p. 216 |
Ethics of Administrative Credentialing | p. 219 |
Ethics of the New Economic Credentialing: Conflicted Leadership Roles | p. 224 |
Whodunit? Ghost Surgery and Ethical Billing | p. 229 |
Other People's Money: Ethics, Finances, and Bad Outcomes | p. 235 |
Consultation or Corruption? The Ethics of Signing on to the Medical-Industrial Complex | p. 240 |
Challenges to Medical Professionalism: Assaults from Within and Without | p. 247 |
Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco? | p. 250 |
Ethics of Unprofessional Behavior That Disrupts: Crossing the Line | p. 254 |
My Brother's Keeper: The Ethics of Uncompensated Care for Illegal Immigrants | p. 258 |
From Premiums to Payouts: Who's Behind the Professional Liability Crisis, Anyway? | p. 265 |
A Helping Hand Bitten: An Ethical Response to Medical Malpractice Suits | p. 273 |
Case-Load Outcome Credentialing: Taking from the Have-Nots | p. 280 |
Fiduciary Economization: Your Wealth or Your Health | p. 285 |
What to Do When a Patient's International Medical Care Goes South | p. 290 |
End-of-Life Issues | p. 295 |
Futility and Surgical Intervention | p. 301 |
Complying with Advance Directives in the Operating Room | p. 303 |
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate | p. 305 |
Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases | p. 308 |
Arsenic and Old Lace: End-of-Life Care in the Postoperative Period | p. 312 |
Training on Newly Deceased Patients | p. 315 |
Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm: Intervene? | p. 318 |
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care | p. 322 |
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Has It Come of Age? | p. 326 |
Index | p. 331 |
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