No matter your career, you will eventually encounter a situation where an ethical or moral decision will have to be made. I plan to pursue athletic training, where many ethical dilemmas will surround the health or actions that affect athletes. Here are three different scenarios I might face as an athletic trainer and how I would resolve each ethical question. The state basketball championships are approaching and the boys team has a chance to win state. The star of the team is a senior, is at the beginning of his career and is trying to sign with the university in the nearby city. He comes to you, as his athletic trainer, with the certainty that during his second year he tried steroids, only once, but never touched them again. What do you do as an athletic trainer? He only used them once, two years ago. You tell the coach, which could take the player off the team and possibly ruin his chance to play in college, or you tell him again about how steroids can ruin his career and choose not to tell the coach because the athlete it's not. I don't currently use them and it was a stupid mistake two years ago? As an athletic trainer, my job and duty is to protect and care for athletes. Make sure they can play safely in games by preventing injuries, and if injuries occur, help them heal and continue playing the sport. If an athlete came and told me, we would sit together and talk about all the consequences that can come from what they did in the past and how it can and will affect them now. Just because it was in the past doesn't mean there aren't still consequences. In this case I see two decisions, tell the coach or not tell the coach. If I told the coach it could cost him his chance to win and... mid-paper... the athlete is fine, but there's a small chance the brain injury is worse than it seems. If I were in this situation, for me the athlete's health is more important than winning a match. If the blow had been extremely hard, I would be concerned about further injury to the brain, such as swelling and bleeding. It would be difficult to hold the position, but I would explain to the athlete that there may be additional damage that we may not be seeing. We don't want to risk anything so we will keep you aside for another 5-10 minutes. then run the tests again and compare the results. If there is any sign of brain damage then he will be out for the rest of the match. If the tests are once again all negative and he feels well without headaches or balance issues, then we can reevaluate the situation and see if he is able to return to the game.