Abstract In recent years, healthcare leaders and medical experts have expressed concerns about tough challenges ahead for healthcare and its leaders. While most agree that the issue warrants attention, consensuses divide around how to respond to the problem. The purpose of this paper is to summarize, explore and analyze Dr. Kyle Glazier’s article on Ronald G. Spaeth’s philosophies on healthcare, and examine Spaeth’s authority on business and healthcare through his education and works. His business theories in management branch from a human relations approach which accounts for much of his success in healthcare to express his methods. He states that healthcare institutions have shifted more like running a business and those young healthcare
Don was told of the treatment and was aware of the things the doctors were going to do in order to keep him alive. Dax was not influenced and made a conscious and intentional decision to not have the treatment done, which will cause his death. Yet the doctors didn’t allow his choice and chose to continue with the treatment because they thought Dax was incompetent to make this call and that the injury was so severe Dax was not in his right state of mind to make the decision. Autonomy as authenticity is if the patient’s choice is consistent with his/her attitudes, values, and life plans, as these have been shown to be reasonably constant over time. An authentic decision is the patient doing what for the patient.
They discussed the situations and concerns with their doctor and hoped that their doctor could allow them to have a full-body scan to confirm that everything goes well with their bodies. Their doctor who is concerned about health costs did not think full-body scan is a necessary and reasonable
This evil aspect could be for the patient or for the doctor, The patient can be very upset because the information was not provided when it was suppose to be provided, and he can take action against the doctor, that can lead to the doctor having legal problems in the future and also the credibility of the doctor will not be the same. I think that both Augustine and Aquinos would agree with the doctor. These philosophers are believers that you should let people take their own deception. These philosophers would disagree with the doctor’s decision because the doctor would be violating his own conducts on ethics and moral. Also another points is that the doctor will be violating the
It is difficult to put yourself into the situation Dax was dealing with, the only way to understand would require one of us experiencing the pain he was going through. The physicians were doing their best to act morally in this situation because it is assumed that they are human beings doing what they felt was ethically and morally right for Dax. It is hard to decide if the physicians truly knew what was right for Dax throughout his treatment. Even though the doctors did not make the decision that Dax wanted, the fact that he was still alive and was
Was there any follow through on the data entry? In my opinion, I feel that the “main” potential source of the problem is the opportunity cost of each group. Who values what more? In defense of the hospital staff, they feel that spending more time entering records will take away from the quality of care towards the patients. Whereas Singh values proper recordkeeping in order to comply with all government and audit regulations so that they are able to continue receiving funding and maintain their positions.
Effectiveness, rather than pure efficiency, is the key to the work of professionals—the sick want a cure, the accused want exoneration, and the defenseless seek security. “I am an expert and I am a professional” (the ninth statement of The Soldier’s Creed) eludes to our duty as soldiers to know our job and be able to perform it under any circumstance imaginable without hesitation or question. Second, professionals are capable of making judgment calls, applying their skills and reaching informed decisions in situations that the general public cannot, because they have not received the relevant training. Professions create their own standards of performance and codes of ethics to maintain their effectiveness. One of the examples of professional ethics is the Hippocratic Oath to which medical doctors adhere to.
For example, side effects of appropriately prescribed and administered chemotherapy are an example of adverse events not caused by error (Hoy, 2006). Medical errors should be disclosed to patients for a number of reasons. Because of their fiduciary relationship with patients, physicians have an ethical responsibility to disclose errors to them. To withhold this information undermines the public trust in medicine and damages the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient. In fact, patients may be caused additional, avoidable harm by failure to disclose because they lack information that would allow them to receive appropriate treatment should further complications arise (Hoy, 2006).
The informed consent presents the treatment information in an understandable manner in an effort to avoid any misunderstandings leading to a possible delay in care. A lack of understanding opens the door to further communication between the physician and the patient or their appointed surrogate. If the patient has not appointed a surrogate, health care professionals cannot treat a patient against their will unless the courts have appointed a health care surrogate. However, when the wishes of a patient conflict with the decision of their surrogate, the health care provider should revert to their institution’s policy or court intervention. When
Academic Integrity means being honest about your work. As a student and an individual it is important that we take the time to properly learn the material. Creative and critical thinking come into play here as we process what we have learned and put it into our own prospective. Imagine a medical student that plagiarizes or takes credit for someone else’s work or research, would you want them as your doctor? Certainly you would not, you would question whether or not they really knew what they were doing.