1. Reporting an incompetent or impaired colleague
2. Owning up after making a medical error
3. Physician/patient confidentiality when one half of a couple is HIV positive and the other half doesn't know
4. Prolonging futile care for a dying patient
5. Denying care to a nonpaying patient
6. Whether to honor a family's request not to tell a relative that he/she has a terminal illness
7. Exaggerating a patient's condition to get insurance coverage
8. Writing a prescription for a family member or friend
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