On taking down a colleague: is there an ethical mandate to report?

"3 Medical professionalism includes broad and expansive concepts of the profoundly ethical underpinnings of medicine. Because PA education occurs over a compact time frame and pressure exists to train PAs in clinical areas, education of PAs about medical professionalism and the historic role of...

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Published inJAAPA (Montvale, N.J.) Vol. 25; no. 8; pp. 63 - 64
Main Author Anderson, Jim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Haymarket Media, Inc 01.08.2012
Subjects
Addictive behaviors
Analysis
Discipline
Drug use
Ethical aspects
Ethics
Fines & penalties
Health technology assessment
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Mandatory Reporting - ethics
Medical ethics
Physician Assistants - ethics
Physician Impairment - legislation & jurisprudence
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Practice
Professional relationships
Regulation
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Summary:"3 Medical professionalism includes broad and expansive concepts of the profoundly ethical underpinnings of medicine. Because PA education occurs over a compact time frame and pressure exists to train PAs in clinical areas, education of PAs about medical professionalism and the historic role of self-reporting may not receive the same emphasis as it does in the more expanded training physicians receive. [...]the decision about if and when to report colleagues is personal and difficult.
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ISSN:1547-1896
0893-7400
DOI:10.1097/01720610-201208000-00015