How medical ethics principles affect daily patient care

Is medical ethics an important aspect of real world medical practice today? Or a quaint notion for the history books based on “Mom and apple pie” generalisms?

Fred Ralston Jr., MD, MACP, ACP's immediate past president and a practicing internist in Fayetteville, Tenn., and Lois Snyder, JD, director of ACP's Center for Ethics & Professionalism, discuss these issues on KevinMD.com, one of the Web's leading destinations for provocative physician commentary.