Physician's Responsibility We, as health care providers, must up hold the trust that our patients give us. We must also do what ever it takes to cure/treat our patient's ailment. The scenario given puts the physician in a predicament. What is he supposed to do? Is he not supposed to tell he wife that she might have something more than she thinks she has, therefore, infecting her unborn child or keep the knowledge of the pilot's promiscuity? The physician has an obligation to both of his patients, but he can not tell the pilot's wife of what he knows, even if it is for her benefit. Also, the doctor can not make jud....

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