Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section One: Challenging professionalism -- 1: Physician care of family, friends, or colleagues -- 2: The impaired physician -- 3: Disclosure of medical error and truth telling -- 4: Conflicts between patient requests and physician obligations -- 5: Judgmental attitudes and opinions in the emergency department -- 6: Using physicians as agents of the state -- Section Two: End-of-life decisions -- 7: Family-witnessed resuscitation in the emergency department: making sense of ethical and practical considerations in an emotional debate -- 8: Palliative care in the emergency department -- 9: Refusal of life-saving therapy -- 10: Revisiting comfort-directed therapies: death and dying in the emergency department, including withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment -- 11: Futility in emergency medicine -- Section Three: Representing vulnerable populations -- 12: The care of minors in the emergency department -- 13: Chemical restraints, physical restraints, and other demonstrations of force -- 14: Capacity determination in the patient with altered mental status -- 15: Obstetric emergency: perimortem cesarean section -- Section Four: Outside influence and observation -- 16: Non-medical observers in the emergency department -- 17: Religious perspectives on do-notresuscitate (DNR) documents and the dying patient -- 18: Non-physician influence on the scope and responsibilities of emergency physicians -- 19: Privacy and confidentiality: particular challenges in the emergency department -- Section Five: Emergency medicine outside the emergency department -- 20: Short-term international medical initiatives -- 21: Disaster triage -- 22: The emergency physician as a bystander outside the hospital -- 23: Military objectives versus patient interests.

Section Six: Public health as emergency medicine -- 24: Treatment of potential organ donors -- 25: Mandatory and permissive reporting laws: conflicts in patient confidentiality, autonomy, and the duty to report -- 26: Ethics of care during a pandemic -- Section Seven: Education and research -- 27: Practicing medical procedures on the newly or nearly dead -- 28: Ethics of research without informed consent -- Appendix: useful resources -- Index.