Ethical problems in the medical office

In an effort to broaden the traditional focus of biomedical research education on problems that occur in the hospital, the authors describe the and range of ethical problems encountered by 280 outpatients during562 office visits to a community-based general internal medicine practice. study, which compiles statistics about the frequency of ethical problems office visits according to sex, race, age, and classification of issues, indicates that almost one third of the patients seen in office present ethical problems that influence their health care. Failure to students skills in this area may leave young physicians unable to cope ethical problems, which may compromise good quality health care and both the physicians' and the patients' satisfaction with medicine in. (KIE abstract)