Dermatoethics

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.- Basics of bioethics and ethical analysis.- Codes of professional ethics.- CLINICAL ETHICS.- Medical errors.- Refusal of treatment.- Care of minors.- Privacy and confidentiality.- Electronic communications and teledermatology-ethics in cyberdermatology.- Unsolicited diagnosis.- Fictional illness and psychodermatology.- RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS.- Human subjects research and IRBs in dermatology.- Ethical issues in dermatologic genetics-genetic testing, gene patents.- Publication ethics- Ethical issues for writers, editors, and reviewers.- SUBSPECIALTY ETHICAL ISSUES.- Ethical issues in surgical dermatology .- Ethical issues in cosmetic dermatology, including office dispensing, advertising and promotion, ethics of medispas, the dermatologist as entrepreneur.- Ethical issues in dermatopathology.- Ethical issues in industrial dermatology and contact dermatitis.- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS.- Ethical Issues in Specialty Training including: relationship to faculty and patients, the residency match, trainee-industry relationships.- Lying for patients, "gaming the system" and other challenges to honesty.- Professional boundaries.- The impaired or incompetent dermatologist.- Gifts to physicians.- Conflicts of interest and dual loyalties.- Dermatologist-Industry relationships.- Access to care and manpower issues.