We explore the potential personal, professional, and legal consequences of physicians taking a stand.

The answer lies in three domains: our professional duties to the patient, our ethical obligations to the patient, and our fiduciary responsibilities to society.
In the past six months, I’ve detected duplicated images in multiple submitted articles, equating to more than 40% of the articles I reviewed.
What responsibility do we have in the otolaryngology community to police ourselves?
Caring for a colleague in medicine carries additional responsibilities, including navigating potential challenges to your care in the context of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and social justice.
Physicians now find themselves in the often uncomfortable position of advocating for the preventive health of patients in the context of a politicized public health response—vaccination.
Effective and caring patient–physician communication is essential to establish a proper and effective patient–physician relationship.
It’s important for a physician to ask him or herself, “Is it worth the risk to discuss politics with a patient?”
Our patients are more than just their disease—they are parents, spouses, and children, all struggling to achieve some level of happiness and health.
For many physicians, discussing political beliefs or controversial advocacy work with patients seems inappropriate or even unethical, though many patients may have no problem with it.