The Physician-Patient Relationship

Derse, Arthur R. M.D., J.D.

From the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, the Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

This article was published on August 20, 2022, at NEJM.org.

Disclosure forms provided by the author are available at NEJM.org.

New England Journal of Medicine 387(8):p 669-672, August 25, 2022. | DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2201630

The Physician-Patient Relationship

Today the physician-patient relationship may be more fraught than ever, but physicians still owe patients both long-standing and more recently added legal duties.