The american medical association recommends which step (s) to a physician on how to terminate a relationship with a patient?

Once, a physician accept to treat a patient, their relationship will continue to exist until the patient no longer needs the physician, then the relationship will end naturally. But in a situation where the relationship has to come to an untimely end, the physician must avoid abandonment claim by giving sufficient notice of withdrawal to the patient, relatives or responsible friends and guardians of his patient in order to secure another physician.