Medical Ethics

A Reference Guide for Guaranteeing Principled Care and Quality

Eldo Frezza

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429015830
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Leadership

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. Medical ethics allow for people, regardless of background, to be guaranteed quality and principled care. It is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. These tenets allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and work towards the same common goal without any conflict.

Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices. Ethical teaching should be an active part of training and should be taught in four division: basic ethics, clinical ethics, legal principles related to ethics and the ethics of research and affiliation. This book is a reference guide for physicians, healthcare providers and administrative staff. It looks at the ethical problems they face every day, gives the background and the ethical problem and then provides practical advice which can be easily implemented. This book provides the knowledge needed to understand who has the right to healthcare, the justice of clinical practice, what autonomy means for a patient giving consent, who is going to make any surrogate decisions and more.

Index

Note: Page numbers in bold indicate tables.

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ABIM, see American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)

Abusive patients, 91–92

physician pathway for, 92–93

ACA, see Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), 26, 28

Accusatory patients, 91

ACGME, see Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

ADA, see Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Adler, Ericka, 93–94

AdvaMed, see Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)

Advance directives

barriers to broader use of, 47

divisions of, 47

family belief and religions, 47–48

in health care decision, 183

importance of, 177

power of attorney, 182–183

Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), 211, 212

Code of Ethics, 213–214

Affordable Care Act (ACA), 13, 76, 82

AIDS algorithm, 108

ALERT algorithm, 108

Alzheimer’s Association, 176

Alzheimer’s disease, 175–179

AMA, see American Medical Association (AMA)

American Bar Association, 182

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), 28

American Medical Association (AMA), 90, 127, 207

Code of Ethics, 7–9, 63

definition of impairment, 107

focus training, 171–172

principles of, 7, 44, 223

American Society of Training and Development, 135

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 160

Anti-Kickback law, 214

Antiharassment policy, 37–38

Apology, role in disclosing medical errors, 61–62

Arrogance, 56–57

Art of medicine, 3–4, 126

Assisted suicide, 194, 197...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Author
• SECTION I Public Health
• SECTION II Physician Professional Relationship
• SECTION III Patient Relationship
• SECTION IV Resources Allocations
• SECTION V Physician Wellness and Moral Distress
• SECTION VI Quality and Dignity
• SECTION VII Outside and Inside the Box
• Index