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There is a significant burden of skin disease among hospitalized patients and it is our ethical responsibility, as a specialty, to address this need. Performing inpatient care exposes consulting dermatologists to ethical considerations that parallel those of other hospital-based providers and challenges consultants to juggle moral standards of patient autonomy, collegiality, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice in allocation of care. As inpatient consultative dermatology grows as a subspecialty, it is paramount that providers consider their ethical obligations and the specific vulnerabilities of this patient population.
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Madigan, L.M., Fox, L.P. (2021). The Ethics of Inpatient Consultative Dermatology. In: Bercovitch, L., Perlis, C.S., Stoff, B.K., Grant-Kels, J.M. (eds) Dermatoethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56861-0_26
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