Consider medical ethics as part of your medical practice action plan

Learning objectives

You will learn to:

• Consider how to brief patients properly describing the risks and benefits of the planned course of action
• Provide informed consent ensuring transparency of the costs of the procedures that are envisaged
• Consider how and where you start in the care of patients so that it can underpin a successful practice, to not exploit patients for financial gain, offering services that fall within good practice guidelines as described by professional societies and the HPCSA code of practice.