As providers of medical information and testimony, clinicians have ultimate responsibility for
ethical conduct as it relates to this information. The authors offer the following …

Abstract Health Care Ethics Health care ethics is the field of applied ethics that is concerned
with the vast array of moral decision-making situations that arise in the practice of medicine …

The ethics of family involved in rehabilitation counseling has not been addressed in the
professional literature, although the recognition of the family in the process has been …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine current approaches and challenges to
teaching ethics in entry-level Canadian physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) …

Ruth B Purtilo, known to many physical therapist students and clinicians through her
numerous publications in the area of ethics, has influenced the delivery of health care …

Comprehensive health care requires the collaboration of several health care disciplines and
perspectives. Physical medicine and rehabilitation, with its explicit emphasis on the …

Objective Despite the frequency of ethical issues arising in patient care, ethical discourse in
the rheumatology literature is negligible. To better understand the scope of ethical problems …

As the private sector rehabilitation industry matures, certain ethical and malpractice issues
have emerged. This article provides an overview of ethical issues in private for-profit …

The ethical codes of nursing and medicine impel both professions to explore improvement of
service even if this means yielding professional prerogatives. The principles which govern …

A code of ethics is used by individuals to justify their actions within an environment. Medical
professionals require a keen understanding of specific ethical codes due to the potential …