title: Conflicts of Interest in Sports Medicine.
abstract: Conflict of interest is common in the practice of medicine, and likely more so in the practice of sports medicine at the highest levels of competition. Two areas where conflict of interest frequently manifest in sports medicine are confidentiality and clinical decision making. Confidentiality can be challenging by the team physician's dual responsibilities to the player-patient and the team. Clinical decision making, traditionally associated with a patient's long term health interests, can be complicated by short term interests rooted in pursuit of winning. These issues are reviewed, hopefully to increase awareness in clinicians who find themselves in these unique situations.
authors.affiliation: Medstar Union Memorial Sports Medicine, 1407 York Road, Suite 100A, Lutherville, MD 21093, USA. Electronic address: Andrew.Tucker@medstar.net.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tucker
mesh_terms: D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making / Q000941:ethics*; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics*; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000941:ethics* / Q000266:history
keywords: Confidentiality; Conflicts of interest; Sports medicine