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The virtue of patience can help lead to thoughtful solutions that both respect the patient and promotes their safety. Physicians can try a number of strategies to persuade a resisting patient to accept medical treatments.
Transparency about the specific limitations of medical science and technology allows the public to more accurately judge their value and understand the proper role in their care. Artificial intelligence can inform and improve human decision-making, but it is not perfect.
Patient confidentiality ethics must be maintained in elevators even though only health care providers are present.
Properly conveyed feedback from colleagues can help clinicians improve patient care.
A significant risk of moral distress is that it can disengage health care professionals from their patients or their colleagues.