Medical ethics and jurisprudence are disciplines with overlapping concepts. For exzample, the ethics concept of respect for autonomy is expressed in law as individual liberty.  

Each of these disciplines has its forums and authority; however in government law may ultimately “resolve” a clinical ethics dilemma with a court order.¹

01. Ethical Principles

02. Informed Consent

04. Patient Competence & Autonomy

• Cross-Cultural Issues and Diverse Beliefs
• Difficult Patient Encounters
• Do Not Resuscitate Orders

  • during Anesthesia and Urgent Procedures
• End-of-Life Issues
• Ethics Committees and Consultation
• Futility
• HIV and AIDS
• Informed Consent
• Interdisciplinary Team Issues
• Maternal / Fetal Conflict
• Mistakes
• Neonatal ICU Issues
• Parental Decision Making
• Physician Aid-in-Dying
• Physician-Patient Relationship
• Professionalism
• Public Health Ethics
• Research Ethics
• Resource Allocation
• Spirituality and Medicine
• Student Issues
• Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment
• Truth-telling and Withholding Information

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