Triage may pose an ethical dilemma to the immediate responders due to the limited treatment resources immediately available in relation to the number of injured persons in various states of health (WMA). ... This ethical value may be reflected in medical terms as quality-adjusted life years and disability- adjusted life years. ... We faced this very dilemma during Hurricane Katrina due to public perception. ... All three theories create ethical dilemmas for the responding medical providers. (Shears 759) Health care disaster ethics incorporates a set of values and principles when making ethica...

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The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate the role of healthcare professionals in relation to decision-making process from different ethical and legal perspectives, and discuss virtue ethics theory and principles that applies in the situation of a clinical dilemma to be presented. ... The dilemma of the situation to the nurse and the team was whether to respect the ethical principle of autonomy of the adolescent, to maintain the duty of care of beneficence, or to accept the wish of the religious belief of the mother and deny the adolescent the legal right of consenting for her treatm...

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There are an alarming number of people that are living in constant, unrelenting, severe and in many cases unnecessary pain. The advances in medicine and technology have been prolonging people's lives for decades. People with terminal illnesses included. It is imperative that individuals have the ab...

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This first step towards universal health care offered provincial governments a fifty percent reimbursement for programs adopted within the framework of the public model.i Conceived through an assessment of ethical and social responsibilities, Douglas' adamant support for Medicare was inspired by the democratic appeal for greater social justice initiatives. ... This paper will attempt to do away with the insistence on economic solvency, which is so often singled out as a primary mechanism through which politicians and intellectuals will often gauge an otherwise moral dilemma. ... As far a...

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U.S. Healthcare Reform I.) Stakes and Positions Healthcare reform continues to be one of the most contentious subjects of debate in American politics. Healthcare accounts for over 16% of federal expenditures, forecasted to increase in the years ahead1. The two main political parties represent...

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In examining the American College Healthcare Executives' Code of Ethics, it serves as a standard for ethical behavior for its affiliates. ... Here, physicians face a dilemma: A patient might want all kinds of treatments and therapies, some of which might be effective and some of which might actually be harmful. ...

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The Scope of the Problem The relationship between health care and health. "In developed countries, the marginal contribution of medical care to life expectancy is very small." (Fuchs1998) Many critical factors associated with poor health may be outside the health care system. Universally, the poor ...

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