当医生出售他们的诊所时，他们对病人的责任是什么？

Q2 Social Sciences

AMA journal of ethics Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.1001/amajethics.2025.308

Lucy Xu, Matthew R Naunheim

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摘要

医生有义务对病人的临床需求和弱点做出谨慎的回应，而私募股权（PE）公司对病人没有这样的道德或法律责任，他们努力为投资者带来最大的财务回报。这篇关于一个案例的评论考虑了当医生将他们的实践出售给私募股权公司时出现的道德利益冲突，并描述了当医生将其出售给以利润为基础的实体时应该考虑什么。

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What Are Physicians' Duties to Patients When They Sell Their Practices?

Physicians have fiduciary duties to respond with care to patient's clinical needs and vulnerabilities, whereas private equity (PE) companies have no such ethical or legal duties to patients and strive to maximize financial returns for their investors. This commentary on a case considers ethical conflicts of interest that arise when physicians sell their practices to PE firms and describes what physicians should consider when selling to fundamentally profit-driven entities.

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AMA journal of ethics Social Sciences-Health (social science)

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1.90

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146

期刊介绍： The AMA Journal of Ethics exists to help medical students, physicians and all health care professionals navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society. The journal publishes cases and expert commentary, medical education articles, policy discussions, peer-reviewed articles for journal-based and audio CME, visuals, and more. Since its inception as an editorially-independent journal, we promote ethics inquiry as a public good.