Joseph S. Sanfilippo
Roger P. Smith

2007

A Handbook for Clinicians

“The obligation to promote the good of the patients is a basic presumption of medical care giving a defining feature of the physician’s ethical responsibility. To promote the patient’s good is to provide care in which benefits outweigh burdens or harms” [American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee Opinion #156, 1995].