Even though the Principle of Autonomy is well established in healthcare ethics and even though a patient’s right to informed consent was affirmed in the American Hospital Association’s Patient Bill of Rights in the 1970’s, unilateral decision making by healthcare providers on behalf of patients, and the corresponding deception of patients this engenders, remains a troubling phenomenon in healthcare. Patient advocacy is frequently held as an ethical obligation for healthcare providers yet both healthcare professionals and organizations rarely have a clearly developed, multidisciplinary program for advocacy on behalf of patients. This presentation offers the following objectives for healthcare providers of all disciplines: • Participants will enunciate both Biblical and healthcare ethics principles of patient advocacy. • Participants will review practical techniques for developing an effective organization-wide program of patient advocacy including policy formation, staff education and patient representative/grievance procedures. • Participants will discuss and resolve case studies on: 1. DRN unilateral decision-making and 2. Use of placebos.