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Box 21.1 Topics in Surgical Ethics- Shared decision-making and informed consent
- Disclosure of adverse events and errors
- Required reconciliation of DNR orders
- Surrogacy rules and advanced directives
- Frameworks for resource allocation
- Surgical innovation versus research
- Negotiating futility disputes
- Prognostication and communicating uncertainty
- Professional accountability and competency
- Surgery and the Jehovah’s witness patient
- Conflicts of interest
- Withdrawal and withholding of support
- Brain death and transplantation ethics
- Confidentiality, privacy, and social media
- Genetic testing and prophylactic surgery
- Stress management and surgeon impairment
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