Includes bibliographical references and index.

Virtue of moral courage : Socrates to Barack Obama -- Values and professional obligations : a guide to when to speak up -- Danger management : cognitive reframing and self-soothing -- Risk assessment and management -- How to speak up and be heard : assertiveness and negotiation skills -- How to deliver bad news -- Patient autonomy : infringements in informed consent -- Advance directives violation : for whom are we doing this? -- Veracity : issues in prognosis, futility, and CPR --

Patient safety : breach in our obligations to protect -- When our colleagues are incompetent or unethical in workplace -- Organizational culture : setting the stage for moral courage -- Executive leadership : necessity of "walking the talk" -- Importance of accountability cannot be underestimated -- Promoting moral courage through human resource management -- Organizational and clinical ethics committees : roles and functions -- Promoting a culture of patient safety -- Managing disruptive physicians -- Leadership development for a moral environment -- The uninsured in America : a moral crisis in health care.