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This practical text offers guidance on ethical issues regularly encountered in primary care. ETHICS IN PRIMARY CARE provides reader-friendly information: definitions, accessible information about relevant ethical theories, and recommendations for resolving issues that arise in primary care. Chapters in ETHICS IN PRIMARY CARE address ethical issues such as: compliance, conflicts of interest, decision-making capacity, genetic testing, hospice and home care, pain control, refusals of treatment,s uspected abuse, treatment at the end of life, and truth-telling.