Physicians can practice strategies for identifying rare conditions or unusual presentations with Diagnostic Dilemmas: Images in Endocrinology, the new release from The Endocrine Society's recently ...

Shy-Drager syndrome, one type of multisystem atrophy, is considered a Parkinson's-plus syndrome. Survival time is less than a decade from the onset of symptoms, and patients usually become physically ...

Find case studies illustrating dilemmas in technology and ethics. Case studies are also available on Internet Ethics. For permission to reprint cases, submit requests to ethics@scu.edu. Looking to ...

A physician's decision made in the belief it is for the welfare of the patient is a type of nonmaleficence. When nonmaleficence supersedes patient autonomy, the patient may see the physician as acting ...