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Consent/informed consent to treatment,
(full disclosure, risks and benefits, placebos, alternative therapies, conflict of interest, and vulnerable populations)
Determination of medical decision-making capacity/informed refusal
Legal issues related to abuse
(child, elder, and intimate partner Reference 1) Intimate partner Reference 2
child protective services, foster care, immunizations legal requirements for reporting
(http://www.birthdefects.org/attorneys/birth-defect-lawsuits/)
Death and dying and palliative care
advance directive, health care proxy, advance care planning
euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
diagnosing death/determination of brain death/pronouncing death
pain management, including ethical issues related to death and dying
psychosocial and spiritual counseling,
Physician-patient relationship (boundaries, confidentiality including HIPAA, privacy, truthtelling, other principles of medical ethics, eg, autonomy, justice, beneficence)
Impaired physician, including duty to report impaired physician
Negligence/malpractice, including duty to report negligence and malpractice
Physician misconduct, including duty to report physician misconduct
Cultural issues not otherwise coded