Sidebar: Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Micro-Scenario

Here’s how you can create your own ethics micro-scenario:

Ask for a volunteer from the audience to be the Doctor of the Day. In your request, mention that all they have to do is answer a “yes or no” question.

Recruit a staff member to play the role of the Grateful Patient.
Have the Grateful Patient go on and on about the excellent care he/she received from the doctor, detailing the many ways the physician went above and beyond the call of duty. Then have the grateful