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ihlr-18959	Mehlman, Maxwell J.	Why Physicians Are Fiduciaries For Their Patients	2015	64	.pdf	application/pdf	25791	962	47	Rodwin describes the following conflicts: obligations to more than one patient, such as when engaging in triage, considering the needs of other patients in deciding whether to place a patient in intensive care, treating both a dying patient and a patient in need of a transplant organ from that patient, and considering the interests of the fetus when caring for a pregnant woman ; an obligation to protect persons who are not their patients, such as physicians’ duty to institutionalize dangerous patients and warn identified third parties of a risk of harm from a patient and their duty to breach patient confidentiality to alert public health officials to a patient’s contagious disease; owing loyalty to certain organizations as well as to patients, such as sports teams, the military, hospital management, and employers; rationing medical resources on behalf of “providers, insurers, government, or society at large”; and “financial conflicts of interest.” In that case, a physician wanted to terminate a relationship with a dialysis patient who was noncompliant and whose bad behavior disrupted treatment for other patients.	cache/ihlr-18959.pdf	txt/ihlr-18959.txt