Sometimes health-care providers with information about family members' genetic risk are confronted by conflicting ethical principles. Which principle is leastlikelytoconflict with the health-care provider's "duty to warn"?

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The ethical principles of "right to privacy," "autonomy," and "beneficence" can all conflict with the health-care provider's duty to warn. If we support a patient's wishes not to share his or her genetic information with family members, we are respecting the patient's "right to privacy" and "autonomy." What is "good" for the patient (respecting the right to privacy) may conflict with what is "good" for the family members (being warned). This creates a problem for respecting beneficence. Genetic discrimination is a social problem but not an ethical principle.

Sometimes Health-Care Providers with Information About Family Members' Genetic Risk