Health and Social Care OCR Level 2 Gloria Manhera Unit 2: Individual Rights in Health and Social Care By: Imama Shahid Group 716 P2: Explain the individual rights of people who use services. Legislation Regulation: 1. Confidentiality For example, people who have their right to have their privacy which they don’t want the doctor would tell his colleagues or his family. A client make an appointment to see doctor, she is worry that she might have a cancer which the doctor comfort her and wouldn’t tell about this to her family or someone else. They can complain what they are not happy with the doctor or a nurse done to them, it could be wrong information details about them.
The BSP is somewhat different from the biomedical model which Doctors in medicine uses as this kind of treatment model focuses more on the physical process as the pathology or the origin of the disease, its biochemistry and its physiological aspects (Wampold, B. (2001). The biomedical model only explains the biological aspect without involving the psychological and social background. Psychological and social aspects are important in determining that the diseases and illness are occurring without effect on both process and outcome of the treatment. Psychological aspect of it plays an important role in determining the prognosis of an individual with disease regardless of the severity of their medical diagnosis (J. W. Drisko and M. D. Grady, 2012).
Wit Vivian Bearing, a demanding uncompromising english professor, specializing in the sonnets of John Donne, lacked the essential human relationships throughout her adult life. When diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, a terminal illness, the only relationships that she had over her research chemotherapy treatments were her doctors and the nurses who looked after her. One of Vivian's relationships within the hospital over the time she spent there was with her doctor Jason Posner. Doctors are the ones that we entrust our life with in times of sickness, we believe that they know what is best to do. We also believe that they will use their judgment as a doctor and a human being to do what is best for our health and comfort.
For example, if a person was showing symptoms of a chest infection, the doctor would listen to their chest and send them for an x-ray to find out what has caused the problem rather than questioning their environment and housing conditions. The biomedical model is the dominant way of practising medicine in modern industrial societies such as our own. There are standards concerning the ‘normal’ functioning of the mind and body against which all others can be judged. The doctor then decides what the symptoms that the patient describes signify. On the basis of this a diagnosis is made and interventions decided upon.
When asked about visiting the doctor to increase his medicine, Mr. Ramirez says he has not. Since increasing the dosage has helped, he does not feel a visit is necessary. (3) List the relevant values There are many things to consider in this case. One important value suggested is the welfare of the patient, which considers the moral rule to protect others from harm. I have good reason to believe that increasing the dosage without consent from the doctor will result in harm to the patient.
Is ensuring informed consent irrelevant to the protection of patient autonomy, at least in the context of primary and ongoing health care? Not at all. Rather, rituals of informed consent can enhance or undermine patients’ conscientious autonomy. Signing an informed consent form may or may not mark a real moment of selfdetermined choice. But
I have chosen to make my new healthcare system as easy for people as possible. People would not mind doctor’s visits if they did not have to wait as long, if they felt like the doctor truly cared, and if they felt like the doctor had the time for, his or her patient. My new system will make a patient feel like, he or she will be the only patient the doctor has. Ambulatory care is important for more efficient service for patients, so my care centers are split up into pieces to make them more efficient if a person is getting an outpatient surgery then he or she will go to a different building with an appointment so the doctors have the time for the patient. Blood tests and x-rays will be separate and appointments will be necessary so the
Legally, hospitals and staff should do what is in the patient’s best interest. According to Smugar, Spina and Merz (2000), “a physician who does not inform a rape victim of her options to help avoid pregnancy violated the obligation to act in her best interest and violates her right to give an informed consent to treatment.” Thus, violating the patient’s right to autonomy; referring to the right of a person to choose their own plan of action, and justice; the right of treating every patient in a fairly manner and giving them all the information needed for them to make an adequate decision. However, if these rights were to be denied for any reason, then justice has been violated (Bodenheimer and
This is standard from state to state. This act doesn’t usually pertain to healthcare workers in their hospital setting. The enactment of this law however can be applied when a health care worker is assisting in a medical emergency while off duty and the person attempts to sue following the assistance that was given or if the doctors attempts to collect compensation for the act. This law cannot be used in the emergency room. In the event that the doctor happens to assist someone in which is in need of emergency medical care, and that person happens to be a patient of theirs, then that health care practitioner would be judged according to medical malpractice
Patients are extremely trusting and rely totally on their physicians. In the past, patients could not protect themselves from “failures in diagnostic, treatment, surgical procedures; selection or doses of medication; delays in diagnosis or treatment; and a host of other procedural lapse including communication or equipment failures”. They could not protect themselves from spiraling incurred cost, unnecessary hospitalization and deceitful practices and today patients are somewhat safeguarded. For years, the AMA have avoided the exposure of the physicians differences and or shortcomings posted or reveal to the public and have had the protective covering of the code of ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA) as their advocate. However, it appears as though the AMA seem more concern about the backlash of public scrutiny and competitive advertising office hours, fees and services rendered versus the importance of reducing and or preventing the mortality rate caused by medical staff errors.