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When companies fail to uphold given standards and guidelines through self-regulation, quality and safety are threatened, along with the trust of the public.

Alice must retire and requires around-the-clock care. She can no longer complete daily tasks and fails to recognize her family members on a consistent basis.

Organ and whole body donation are crucial to saving lives and advancing medicine.

Trip Granger, the hard-partying son of wealthy financier Emmett Granger, who complicates matters both by offering to donate $25 million to the hospital so his son gets the organ.

Use of AI in health care promises to improve diagnostic accuracy but valid concerns remain regarding data security, bias, and equitable accessibility.

Improving the accuracy of the Census to ensure better political representation is an important step in reducing health disparities that disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples. 

Every patient deserves to be well informed about the makeup of the surgical team before proceeding with and consenting to a surgical procedure. 

Do patients have a right to know whether their physicians are vaccinated for COVID-19?

Learners will recognize competence as an ethical responsibility and know how to apply self-assessment and self-awareness strategies.

Learners will know how to recognize the influence of patient's background on the consent process; describe a framework for communicating effectively with patients; and apply the LEARN model to elicit patient understanding.