She calls the balance of patient autonomy and cultural respect a “complicated tightrope to walk,” but says that these ethical principles can inform medical decisions and the patient-physician ...

At their core, patient rights aim to ensure that patients are treated with dignity and respect, have autonomy in medical decision-making, and are protected from discrimination and abuse or within ...

The lives of my patients — my thinking, feeling, breathing, reproducing patients — will always be top of mind for me. And whenever they believe that life begins, I will respect.