Where the rubber meets the road: the challenge of reporting colleagues' boundary violations.

You expect crises to arise in the course of your caring for patients. But, unexpectedly and inevitably, some crucial moments can involve your responsibility to report ethical breaches by your colleagues. Unwelcome, uninvited, prompted by nothing but circumstance and acts of good will, such moments will challenge and partly define you— in your own eyes and, quite possibly, those of your professional community [1].