Evaluating the service aspects of emergency care

Patient consent issue.

Gifts from pharmaceutical and medical device industries

Physician-patient relationship requires that the confidentiality of protected health information be maintained

A physician's primary responsibility remains with the patient

Duty to provide appropriate evaluation and treatment for every patient who presents to the ED

Opposes all forms of discrimination against patients

Physicians have an important ethical and legal duty to guard and respect the confidentiality of a patient.