Ethical issues in teamwork: the context of rehabilitation

Comprehensive health care requires the collaboration of several health care disciplines and perspectives. Physical medicine and rehabilitation, with its explicit emphasis on the candidate's physical, psychosocial, and emotional well-being, understandably has depended on a team arrangement from its very beginnings. In spite of its shortcomings, a team approach, guided by well-formulated moral policies, provides ample opportunities for the rehabilitation candidate's best interests to be served.