A Medical Affair is more than compelling fiction. It also is a powerful narrative about how relationships between physicians and patients can evolve in unethical, even unlawful ways. And as a medical ethicist and educator, I was delighted to see Strauss deftly weave important information about sexual misconduct by physicians into her story line.” David Orentlicher Professor of law, medicine and ethics at Indiana University. Oversaw drafting of American Medical Association's ethical guidelines on intimate relationships between physicians and their patients
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Related The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on r... SHERWIN B. NULAND At the same time, as is true with any medicine, all benefits and risks need to be considered by phys... JOSEPH FECZKO The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good ... ATUL GAWANDE Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of car... MARIA CANTWELL In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by ... BERNIE SANDERS What we need is a system that's fair to everyone, a system that keeps the physicians in practice and... DONALD PALMISANO In the world of heart care, physicians rely heavily on information that is digitally or electronical... LAURA KING The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leav... RAMAKRISHNA [The presentations will focus on the role Nazi medical practices played in the development of medica... ALAN WELLS I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine. SEVERO OCHOA Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of ... PETER LEWIS ALLEN Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Might I ask what medical school [the detainee] is a graduate of? Or from which state you and your st... CHARLES MEYERS Part of it is the responsibility of patients and part of it is physicians and trying to keep up with... DR. DEEPAK BHATT Comprehensive protection of personal medical records is what Congress called for in the law, and it'... DONNA SHALALA Physicians and patients have no understanding how insurers come up with these usual and customary fe... DONALD PALMISANO Physicians and patients have no understanding how insurers come up with these usual and customary fe... DONALD PALMISANO We have been working closely with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, MHLW and some of the... HUIMIN WANG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospital... SAMUEL WILSON We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in th... KRISTIN NEWBY Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to... KEN JOHNSON Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. Tha... AMI BERA We're not going to comment on the reasons for the change. Relationships between physicians and Healt... KEITH LUNDQUIST Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals t... DEAN ORNISH What we have here, I think, is quite a lot of noise with respect to this matter of clinical practice... KAREN IGNAGNI I know that the (medical) landscape has changed. More and more as physicians we are asking more ques... ANTHONY TANG If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation f... SCHOLA SALERN This was due to a perceived lack of need, so clearly it's important that physicians and dentists and... DR. ROBIN GOLAND We at Guidant recognize that there is an increased appetite for information from our industry among ... STEVE TRAGASH This study is a very important reminder to physicians to pay particular attention to a woman's famil... KAREN LU The Bridges to Excellence program is a very effective way to identify physicians who care for patien... CHARLES CUTLER Physicians need to be aware of the potential manifestations of CMI and the need to treat them, and m... DR. MELVIN BLANCHARD Physicians need to be aware of the potential manifestations of CMI and the need to treat them, and m... MELVIN BLANCHARD Many of the most important issues in medical ethics today - from genetic testing and stem cell resea... ALAN WELLS Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patien... CHAROTTE BLEASE Physicians are at special risk of abusing their authority and intimate access to others, WILLIAM ROBERTSON The bottom line is physicians and all health care workers are in a unique position to determine if i... JOHN NELSON Cultural differences between physicians and patients, such as language and diet, can often lead to i... JEAN MOORE Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present,... MARIAN DEEGAN To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life... WILLIAM OSLER High-risk heart failure patients are likely more complex to care for and difficult patients to initi... DOUGLAS LEE It shouldn't be a surprise that physicians do not know how to properly conduct a drug test, because ... DR. SHARON LEVY Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to... ANURAG SHOURIE We want to understand why healers became killers and use our understanding as a guide for medi... ALAN WELLS We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experien... BILL ADAMS For this reason, while we believe that many more people could benefit from taking aspirin, it is imp... DR. JEFFREY BERGER People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medicati... BOB BARR These Civil War data represent a rare opportunity to look at medical records of war veterans over th... JUDITH PIZARRO It's very good news for patients because there is a choice available to treating physicians. FRED MODELL Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do... DEAN ORNISH But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three ye... ROBERT JAY LIFTON It blurs the line between cosmetic self-care and serious . . . medical care. It is normalizing wha... LINDSAY THOMPSON I think a lot (of the increase) has come about because physicians don't want to be awakened in the m... CHARLES LOCKWOOD Profits in the medical industry are being reduced every day, Physicians just can?t afford to keep le... JEFF DODSON The physicians we have with private practices have no revenue coming in. I need both the money to su... MARK PETERS For this reason, while we believe that many more people could benefit from taking aspirin, it is imp... JEFFREY BERGER That's a lot of money you are talking about between an increase in their retirement check and medica... MAGGIE DEETZ Lipitor is one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our era, and millions of patients have... HANK MCKINNELL I think this is a real wake-up call for both patients and the medical community. ARTHUR EPSTEIN One of those patients was more than 100 years old, quite frail, with advanced cancer and multiple ot... DR. HOLLY HOLMES One of those patients was more than 100 years old, quite frail, with advanced cancer and multiple ot... HOLLY HOLMES We are making the prescribing information much more targeted and useful for physicians. The prescrib... DR. JANET WOODCOCK Patients and physicians need options to address early to moderate stage disc degeneration. Currently... DAVID HOOPER Patients and physicians need options to address early to moderate stage disc degeneration, ... Curre... DAVID HOOPER We had a department in place to handle questions and concerns from doctors, but we didn't have anyth... GARY SAMUELS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The scientific and medical communities have determined that smoked marijuana is a health danger, not... KAREN TANDY Brain mapping can help physicians monitor patients with more accurate detail than they can obtain by... PAUL THOMPSON In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reas... GEORGE EMIL PALADE The gap between basic biology and medical practice is growing. As knowledge in molecular genetics an... ANN BONHAM Often unless there is a specific problem they have to a possible STD, they do not bring it up, ... T... JAMES ALLEN By freezing payments at 2005 rates, the House has stopped a planned 4.4 percent payment reduction th... EDWARD HILL Our relationship with MP4 demonstrates GE's continued commitment to personalized healthcare by provi... VISHAL WANCHOO My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with se... AARON CIECHANOVER Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the phy... ANNE WOJCICKI The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al... LEWIS THOMAS The close ties between belief and behavior suggests that physicians are unlikely to reach agreement ... DR. FARR CURLIN I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. SAMUEL WILSON Those hospitals in the vanguard, who have organized to provide that kind of coordinated treatment, a... ZACH HALL If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in... DR. ELMER HESS Greater public health and clinical efforts are needed for patients and physicians to improve awarene... DONALD LLOYD Patients have assessment and contact with a medical professional almost immediately when they walk i... KATRINA OTTO This is a great step forward for Group Health staff and the patients we serve in East King County. I... SCOTT ARMSTRONG With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ... JON PORTER Deploying an Electronic Health Record successfully is not just about software. It's about understand... GLEN TULLMAN We think the current Viagra label is appropriate ... we think it fairly reports and alerts the patie... 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