An ethical question: When should a doctor ‘stand down’ from a procedure?

Medical ethicist Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., says there is a question that comes up again and again in medicine: What should a doctor say to a patient when he or she has not done a procedure frequently or recently? It’s a question of how much a doctor needs to share with a patient about his or her level of experience, writes Caplan, of the division of medical ethics and the New York University Langone Medical Center, in a commentary on Medscape.
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