Summary: Ethical Issues Of Chiropractor

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Ethical Issues of Chiropractor Enisse Woodall HCA 322: Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Dolores Thomas Date: December 5, 2011 Ethical Issues of Chiropractor When it comes to the medical field and those who helps patients, different physician are capable of performing different task. Chiropractor are those who help people when their bones are stiffen, have sore muscle joints, and have body joint problems. This paper will discuss what a “chiropractor” is and what their duties are as a physician. The binding source of the legal source of this profession and also discuss the common ethical issues that “chiropractor” faces as a profession. Chiropractors “also known as doctors of chiropractic or chiropractic…show more content…
They are expected to maintain the integrity, competency, and standards of their profession, as well as avoid even the appearance of professional impropriety” (Pozgar, pg. 267, 2010). “The chiropractic approach to healthcare focuses on the patient's overall health. Chiropractors provide natural, drugless, nonsurgical health treatments, relying on the body's inherent recuperative abilities. They also recognize that many factors affect health, including exercise, diet, rest, environment, and heredity. Chiropractors recommend changes in lifestyle that affect those factors. In some situations, chiropractors refer patients to or consult with other health practitioners” (www.bls.gov). What are the duties of a chiropractor? Chiropractors’ duties are to determine whether or not a patient is treatable through their service. Also to refrain from their treatment when a reasonable chiropractor would or should be aware that a patient’s condition will not respond to chiropractic treatment. Failure to conform to the standard of care…show more content…
This is because, people in this industry deal with such situations and circumstances, everyday, which have a direct bearing on another person's life. That is why, it is mandatory for all healthcare organizations to have an ethics committee, a written code of ethics and written policies and procedures on ethical decision making, so that the interests of all the parties, whether the patient, his family members, the organization itself, caregivers and the community itself, are properly looked into and balanced out. What are the ethical issues which are faced by chiropractors? For the chiropractor in a traditional medical setting, ethical decisions occur occasionally and at times the chiropractor may face ethical dilemmas. In contrast, the correctional chiropractor may face ethical situations daily. The correctional nurse makes ethical decisions about care delivery, caring and patient advocacy in planning and providing safe patient care. Some of the ethical principles that arise frequently for the nurse who works in the correctional setting are the respect for a person, justice, and fidelity. These principles serve as a guide to the chiropractor in making ethical decisions. The correctional chiropractor can find support for ethical decisions by referring to the American Chiropractor Association’s code of ethics. The code delineates the ethical standards for nurses across all

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