1: Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics; 2: Informed Consent and Disclosure:; a. Painted Into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah’s Witness; b. A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery; c. Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording; 3: Professional Self-Regulation; a. What to Tell Patients Harmed by Other Physicians; b. Eye-Witness to Incompetent Surgery;; c. Military Physician’s Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture; 4: Innovation and Research; a. When Does Conventional Surgery Become Research?;; b. A Surgeon’s Obligation When Performing New Procedures;; c. The Ethics of Innovative Approaches for Well-Established Procedures; 5: Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment; a. Intentional Over-Treatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of Interest; b. Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities; c. Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest; 6: The Ethics of Surgery as a Surgery; a. Ethics of Physicians’ Income; b. Ethics of Personal Advertising in Surgery; c. Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians; 7: Medical Professionalism Challenges: Assaults from Within and Without; a. Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco?; b. Unprofessional Behavior that Disrupts: Crossing the Line; c. My Brother’s Keeper: Ethics of Uncompensated Care for Undocumented Immigrants; 8: End-of-Life Issues; a. Futility and Surgical Intervention; b. Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm - Intervene?; c. Complying with Advance Directives in the OR; d. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate; e. Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases; f. Arsenic and Old Lace: End of Life Care in the Post-Operative; g. Training on Newly Deceased Patients; h. Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care; i. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Has It Come of Age?

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