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Question: What is ethics in healthcare? Healthcare ethics is the collection of principles that guide doctors, nurses, and other clinicians in providing medical care. It combines moral beliefs - a sense of right and wrong - with a sense of the provider's duty toward others. Healthcare ethics covers how providers treat patients. It also provides guidelines for ethical behaviors such as relationships with patients and colleagues; relationships with vendors such as pharmaceutical companies, in which doctors may be offered incentives to prescribe medications; and ?nancial incentives to overtreat or undertreat patients. L Wherever a conflict of interest between the patient and the provider arises, ethics inhealthcare demand that the decision comes down on the side of ' the patient.