Health Care Resource Allocation
Health Care Resource Allocation
Yvonne Larson
November 25, 2013
Repurposed: “This task contains portions of material that were originally submitted during the 1302A/1303Asessions in HCM 612-01 & HCM 621-01 with Dr. Jill Diede & Dr. Peter Moskowitz”
Clinical Staff – Financial Conflicts
Ethics is the study of moral choices that conform to professional standards of conduct (Flight, pg. 201, 2004). The word ethic is from the Greek term ethos, which means custom usage or character. Ethics is study grounded theoretically in philosophy. Ethics is traditionally referred to as a custom of particular community and evolved to include the standards of good or bad, to question the obligation of moral duty (Flight, pg. 202 & 203, 2004). It is very important that medical providers develop their own understanding of medical ethics (Flight, pg.209, 2004). Comparing both the law and ethics where there is a relationship exists between both, law and ethics. Both of these, law and ethics overlap and what is perceived as unethical is also illegal and in other situations they do not overlap. Then some cases what is perceived as unethical can still be legal and others what seems or is illegal is perceived as being ethical. Ethical valves and legal principles are sometimes closely related, but the typical ethical obligations can exceed legal duties. In some cases law will mandate ethical conduct. A set of ethical guidelines need to be established to detect, resolve and forestall ethical breaches that can often prevent a company getting into subsequent legal conflict (Anstead 1999). The key stakeholders are the patient’s, board of directors, CEO, Chief of Medical Staff and their attorneys for both sides. Other descriptions of these are that values are rules, morals are how we judge other people and ethics are our professional standards. The differences between these three in short: values motivate, morals and ethics constrain. Morals and
Yvonne Larson
November 25, 2013
Repurposed: “This task contains portions of material that were originally submitted during the 1302A/1303Asessions in HCM 612-01 & HCM 621-01 with Dr. Jill Diede & Dr. Peter Moskowitz”
Clinical Staff – Financial Conflicts
Ethics is the study of moral choices that conform to professional standards of conduct (Flight, pg. 201, 2004). The word ethic is from the Greek term ethos, which means custom usage or character. Ethics is study grounded theoretically in philosophy. Ethics is traditionally referred to as a custom of particular community and evolved to include the standards of good or bad, to question the obligation of moral duty (Flight, pg. 202 & 203, 2004). It is very important that medical providers develop their own understanding of medical ethics (Flight, pg.209, 2004). Comparing both the law and ethics where there is a relationship exists between both, law and ethics. Both of these, law and ethics overlap and what is perceived as unethical is also illegal and in other situations they do not overlap. Then some cases what is perceived as unethical can still be legal and others what seems or is illegal is perceived as being ethical. Ethical valves and legal principles are sometimes closely related, but the typical ethical obligations can exceed legal duties. In some cases law will mandate ethical conduct. A set of ethical guidelines need to be established to detect, resolve and forestall ethical breaches that can often prevent a company getting into subsequent legal conflict (Anstead 1999). The key stakeholders are the patient’s, board of directors, CEO, Chief of Medical Staff and their attorneys for both sides. Other descriptions of these are that values are rules, morals are how we judge other people and ethics are our professional standards. The differences between these three in short: values motivate, morals and ethics constrain. Morals and