HIV-infected surgeon: Professional responsibility and self interest

Focus on Professional Responsibility Conflicts of Interest — The Basics

Part Three—Conflict with Former Client The gist of MRPC 1.9 is that, even after a lawyer’s representation of a client ceases, the lawyer may not represent a prospective client (Client A on Decision Tree No. 3) in the same or a substantially related matter in which the prospective client’s interests are materially adverse to those of the former client without the consent of the former client (Cl...

Duty hours and professional responsibility.

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 803. Dear Colleagues, By the time you read these lines, a new cohort of medical graduates will have begun their residencies in family medicine and other specialties. Your College is one of the organizations represented on a steering committee addressing resident duty hours, hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with f...

Error, blame, and professional responsibility.

It has become common knowledge that health care takes place in complex settings that are fraught with the potential for error. More than this, it is becoming a commonplace understanding that error will occur in hospitals, and that some of those errors will inflict harm on patients and their families. The Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human, describes error as involving multiple aspects...

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering

Surgeon Responsibility in the Era of Change

JSLS (2003)7:293-294 293 A remarkable change in the face of medicine and surgery has occurred in the past decade. The prospect for the future is that even more extraordinary disruptions will occur. Ten years ago, cloning was a theoretical possibility; now human clones exist. Minimally invasive surgery was emerging and robots were speculated upon; now robotic surgery is commonplace. Training was...