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Access to unproven, experimental treatments by individuals who are unable or unwilling to participate in clinical trials of new interventions raise ethical concerns.

Search for effective treatments can move swiftly during a pandemic as researchers and institutions mount studies to test plausible therapies.

Physicians’ dual obligations to serve both the well-being of their individual patients and that of other patients and the community at large come into sharp tension in a public health emergency.

During times of extraordinary need, would it be appropriate to involve medical students in providing direct patientcare to supplement the physician workforce?

Physicians have a well-recognized duty to provide care even at risk to oneself during a public health emergency.

Physicians who provide services remotely must be proficient in whatever technologies they use.

One concern raised by the COVID-19 pandemic is whether physicians could provide care outside of a non-compete agreement or restrictive covenant.

Physicians have an ethical obligation to address conditions that undermine their ability to fulfill their responsibilities to provide safe, high-quality patient care.

The more readily transmissible the disease and the greater the risk to patients whom the physician comes into contact, the stronger the duty to accept immunization.

During public health emergencies, fidelity to the individual patient is counterbalanced by the need to protect the welfare of a population of patients.