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Anitra Beasley, MD, MPH
Associate Residency Program Director
Assistant Director, Ryan Residency Program in Family Planning
Assistant Professor
Division of Gynecologic and Obstetric Specialists
Division of Health Law and Policy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Medical Intervention Against Patient's Will
Jennifer Bercaw-Pratt, MD
Clerkship Director
Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Confidentiality
David Brendel, MD, PhD
Leading Minds Executive & Personal Coaching
Belmont, Massachusetts
Social Media Ethics
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD
Director, Master's Degree Program in Bioethics
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Jurisprudence
Gizelle Brooks-Carter, MD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital
Prescribing for Friends and Family Members
Stephen D. Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice
Boston Children's Hospital
Communicating Bad News
Thomas I. Cochrane, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Associate Neurologist, Senior Ethics Consultant
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Futility
Informed Consent
Physician-Assisted Suicide
End-of-Life Ethics
Withholding Life Support
Jennifer DiPace, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
New York, New York
Parental Decision-Making
Paula J. Efird, RNC-OB
Director of Women's Services
St Joseph Medical Center
Interdisciplinary Issues: Team Conflict
Martha Jurchak, RN, PhD
Executive Director, Ethics Service
Ethics Committees and Consultation
Joseph S. Kass, MD, JD
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry & Medical Ethics
Risk Management
Charlie C. Kilpatrick, MD
Residency Program Director
Associate Professor
Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Cross-Cultural Issues
Lyuba Konopasek, MD
Designated Institutional Official
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital
Babu Krishnamurthy, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Research Ethics
Adrienne LeGendre, MD
Resident Physician
Laurence B. McCullough, PhD
Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Associate Director for Education
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Patient Abandonment
Physician–Patient Relationship
Aisling McGuckin, BSN, MSN, MPH
Maternal Child Health Nurse Consultant – Healthy Texas Babies
Office of Title V & Family Health
Texas Department of State Health Services
Austin, Texas
Public Health Ethics
(The views expressed in this chapter are those of the authors and should not be perceived as representing the Texas Department of State Health Services.)
Ali Mendelson, MD
Resident in Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine
Peter Movilla
Senior Medical Student
Maternal–Fetal Conflict
Jillian O'Donnell
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Addictive Behavior in a Colleague
Francisco J. Orejuela, MD
Hillary Patuwo, MD, MBA
Chief Resident and Patient Safety Officer
Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency
Resource Allocation
Frank X. Placencia, MD
Section of Neonatology
Department of Pediatrics
Truthtelling and Withholding Information
Peter Pressman, MD
Clinical Instructor
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Student Issues: Procedures on Patients
Susan P. Raine, MD, JD, LLM, MEd
Vice Chair of Global Health Initiatives
Steven A. Ringer, MD, PhD
Chief, Newborn Medicine
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Ethics
Marwa Saleh, MD
Resident in Family Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas
Caring for a Patient Infected with HIV
S. Andrew Schroeder, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Basic Ethical Principles
Stephen Scott, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Jo Shapiro, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Chief, Division of Otolaryngology
Director, Center for Professionalism and Peer Support
Disclosure and Apology
Patricia A. Smith, MD
Medical Faculty Associates
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Professionalism
Blake Sonne, MD
Emergency Medicine Resident
Hackensack University Medical and Trauma Center
Hackensack, New Jersey
Clinical Dishonesty
Difficult Consultation
Julie Stagg, MSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC
Women's and Perinatal Health Nurse Consultant
Debra Taubel, MD
Clerkship Director and Associate Professor
Allison L. Toy
Senior Nursing Student
Scott and White Nursing School
Belton, Texas
Eugene C. Toy, MD
Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Director of Generalist Division
The Methodist Hospital
Clinical Professor and Clerkship Director
University of Texas Medical School
at Houston
John S. Dunn Senior Academic Chair
Organ Transplantation and Do Not Resuscitate Orders
Michael J. Toy
Masters of Divinity Candidate
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey
Student Cheating and Plagiarism
Veronica Tucci, MD, JD
Assistant Residency Director
Section of Emergency Medicine
Department of Medicine
Teresa M. Walsh, MD
Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Boundary Issues