title: Physician ethics at risk.
abstract: Patient rights issues are taking center stage. Many patient-HMO agreements, for instance, ignore a patient's common right law to refuse treatment and also jeopardize the physician-patient partnership. How should physicians deal with situations concerning patient rights?
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rondum
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016312:Treatment Refusal