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* Provision of futile, ineffective, or unnecessary treatment | * Provision of futile, ineffective, or unnecessary treatment | ||
* Misuse of medical resources | * Misuse of medical resources | ||
* Surrogate consent | * <b>Surrogate consent</b> (See below>) | ||
* Informed consent | * Informed consent | ||
* Patient exploitation | * <b>Patient exploitation.</b> (See below.) | ||
* <b>Duties to child-patients.</b> The Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that pediatric health care providers 'have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses. Although impasses regarding the interests of minors and the expressed wishes of their parents or guardians are rare, the pediatrician's responsibilities to his or her patient exist independent of parental desires or proxy consent."<ref>{{REFjournal | * <b>Duties to child-patients.</b> The Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that pediatric health care providers 'have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses. Although impasses regarding the interests of minors and the expressed wishes of their parents or guardians are rare, the pediatrician's responsibilities to his or her patient exist independent of parental desires or proxy consent."<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
|last=American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics | |last=American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics | ||