No matter your career, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where an ethical or moral decision must be made. I plan to move into athletic training where many ethical dilemmas will involve health or actions regarding athletes. Here are three different scenarios I might face as an athletic trainer and how I would resolve each ethical issue. The state basketball championships are approaching and the boys' team has a chance to win state. The star of the team is a senior, early in his career and looking to sign with the university in the next town over. He comes to you, as an athletic trainer, with the certainty that in his second year he tried steroids just once, but didn't touch them again. As a sports coach, what do you do? He only used them once, two years ago. Do you tell the coach what could take the player off the team and possibly ruin his chance to play in college or do you tell him again how steroids can ruin his career and choose not to tell him the coach because the athlete is not. I don't currently use them and was this a stupid mistake two years ago? As an athletic trainer, my job and duty is to protect and treat athletes. Make sure they can play safely in games by avoiding injury and, if an injury occurs, help them heal and return to sport. If an athlete came to me and said that, we would sit down together and talk about all the consequences that can come from what he did in the past and how it can and will affect him now. Just because it was in the past doesn't mean there aren't still consequences. In this case I can see two decisions, tell the coach or not tell the coach. If I tell the coach, it could cost him the chance to win state and the... middle of paper ... time, the athlete is doing great, but there is a small chance that the brain injury gets worse. than it seems. If I were in this situation, for me the health of the athlete is more important than winning a match. If the blow was extremely violent, I would worry about further brain damage, such as swelling and bleeding. It would be difficult to hold on, but I would explain to the athlete that there might be other damage we could incur. do not see. We don't want to risk anything, so we're going to keep you on the sidelines for another 5-10 minutes. then repeat the tests and compare the results. If there is any sign of brain damage, he will be out for the rest of the game. If the tests are all negative again and he feels good without any headaches or balance issues, we can reevaluate the situation and see if he is able to return to the game..