Comparing The Ethic Of Respect For Persons

While thinking that many are incapable of knowing the truth, it’s also partial of one’s principles when mixing the truth with lies as physician. When one lie begins many more might not be recognized. This has significant into how many lies can be told without the patient’s knowledge. How many more lie to come? It’s unknown of how many lies will be unrecognized, therefor doctors should not lie to their patients not even once. Morally doctors have the obligations of fairness to their patient. Making such a decision for a patient by lying to them can contradict a doctor’s responsibilities to perform ethically. So, while doctors might feel patients can’t handle the truth, it’s the patients right to decided that. Some will argue that when a vulnerable

For example, the Hippocratic oat, the prayer of Moses Maimonides, the bible, the Holy Koran, and the Islamic legacy, as well as cultures, traditions, and social morality have shaped and guided the development of ethical standards in the medical profession. The majority of these historical documents focus on “avoiding harm to patients” Ethics refers to a professional moral conduct. Ethics, particularly professional ethics, describes the moral actions based on professional character and ethical principles in each profession. The statements of medical ethics require the health care providers to do what is best for the patient and place the patients’ interests before the interests of the physician. Above all, the purpose of medical ethics is to protect and defend human dignity and patients’

Care providers strive to provide care that is patient focused that maintains confidentiality and respect. This paper is about the maintenance of patient confidentiality and the trusting relationships that must be maintained between the patient and the healthcare providers.

Informed consent is the patient’s voluntary agreement to undergo a particular procedure or treatment, such as surgery. The procedural physician should provide information related to the surgical intervention in understandable words. The patient must be conscious and alert at the time the consent is granted. But what happens if the patient is unconscious or mentally incompetent? Consent forms are not legal if the patient is confused, unconscious, sedated or mentally incompetent. Consent may be given in those instances by a parent, spouse, next of kin, or legal guardian. During this week, I experience those instance with two different patients, J.J and B.F. J.J was unconscious secondary to a mobile vehicle accident, which caused him a lot of trauma especially in the respiratory and digestive system. J.J was unable to provide consent for surgery; however, the parents signed all the forms and declared responsibility from him. In the case of B.F, an 85 years old white female that suffer from dementia and lives in a nursing home, the consent was almost impossible to obtain. The patient

Simplistic assertions about telling the truth may not be helpful to patients or physicians in times of trouble. The principle of respect for autonomy, suggests that patients should not be misled or left uniformed. Patients, can be empowered to safeguard their interests when told the truth. He truth calls for tact and decency. Put oneself in the patient’s position. Maximal physiological function or in this case , mere survival. The obligation to disclose relevant, reasonably expected truths is not absolute but prima facie. Under a pluralist moral framework, which acknowledges a pluralityof moral values, there may be other considerations that trump the duty to tell the truth. If telling the truth is likely to endanger the life of a frail patient, for example, then my obligation of non-maleficence may trump my duty to tell the

“Professional integrity derives its substance from the fundamental goals or mission of the profession” (Wakin, 1996, para. 15). Meaning to say, individuals seek for a professional’s valued and ethical advice to which the professional holds their responsibility to maintain and exceeds the level of their expertise. For example, a general practitioner will treat a variety of patients, from all different walks of life with a plethora of different problems. It is their duty to diagnose and treat the patient to the best of their professional ability without prejudice. Another aspect of their duties is the principle of patient confidentiality. Medical professionals are legally bound to not divulge any information provided to them by their patients.

When a mentally ill patient becomes too incapacitated to properly give consent for a research experiment, should the experiment team stop and allow the procedure to continue? In the case study, “The Monitor’s Consent”, a researcher apart of the Department of Psychiatry questions the ethics of this situation. The nurse providing care for the impaired schizophrenic patient tries to persuade the researcher that both the subject and his monitor agreed to the operation before, however, they are now becoming increasingly symptomatic to his own illness and sedatives. Even though they did give consent prior to the medication, the researcher is concerned that they were too incapacitated due to their own disease to give consent. The patient, Mr. Young, did not sign an advance directive beforehand to allow

In essence, medical ethics to ensure the fair treatment of every patient regardless of their differences, it does not take into consideration the patient's beliefs. Patients beliefs and preferences should always be respected even if that may result in severe

"The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics states that building a relationship of trust with patients is fundamental to the ethical practice of medicine. Sadly, doctors often find they

The patient and physician relationship is must be stander on trusting and the physicians’ ethical must be giving rise to place patients’ privet rather than own self-interest and other people .

Although we frequently find ourselves amidst ethical dilemmas while we navigate through our day-to-day lives, none of the dilemmas we encounter are as controversial as those in the field of medicine. Undoubtedly, resolving conflict among principles is a difficult task. In the context of medicine, decisions tend to have a strong and direct correlation to life or death. Due to such, the gravity of decisions is amplified within this industry. Usually, the source of the dilemma is a result of friction within the four main domains: respect for others, beneficence, justice, and non-maleficence (Westgate, 2017). In the presentation, Susan Westgate offered one authentic advice to help us navigate these situations of conflict- “go back to your

This edition consists of nine chapters divided into three parts, as well as an appendix of ten biomedical ethics cases. In Part I, chapter 1, entitled "Moral Norms," introduces the decision-making framework with attention to specifying and balancing principles and rules for moral deliberation and decision-making. Chapter 2, entitled "Moral Character," elaborates on moral virtues and ideals as an often-neglected area in biomedical ethics. In Part II, chapters 3 through 6 present the four basic groups of principles, and chapter 7, "Professional-Patient Relationships," examines the moral rules of veracity,

In today’s world with the institutional setting of hospitals and private practices, the relationship between doctors and patients has morphed into one that no single relationship model as described in the text can perfectly encompass. The age old concept/belief that “physicians are selfless individuals who are doing everything in their power to benefit their patients and patients by contrast are dependent individuals with an obligation to trust physicians” (DeGrazia, Mappes, Brand-Ballard - 59) no longer holds true due to patients experience and the availability of information on malpractice and violations of trust by people in the systems that are supposed to foster the well-being and safety of patients.

Answering these questions, from a non professional’s perspective may be an easy no or even yes. However, from a professional perspective, some moral theorists may have much to debate before deriving at a conclusion, if any. All six theories learnt can be explored in this case study along with all the ethical dilemmas mentioned; notwithstanding, I will try to answer the question “should I lie to my patient”? Using the reasoning’s of the utilitarian theory, which includes act- utilitarianism and rule- utilitarianism. In addition, the deontology theory will be explored. One other theory will be mentioned briefly as it may relate to case 2.3.

Truthfulness spreads into almost everywhere such as relationships, education, especially medicine because it is a very significant property. Since the beginning, there is an argument in medicine whether doctors should always tell the truth to seriously ill or dying patients or not. There are many various ideas, which may change by situation or people, in this issue. For example, according to Sisella Bok there are three main arguments on this issue, which are that truthfulness is impossible; patients do not want bad news; and truthful information harms them (227) in her article “Lying to the Sick and Dying”. However, while she refers to these arguments she debunks them because she thinks that doctors should not tell lies to their patients.