Informed Consent Case Study
Legal issues
Consent also has a legal angle. Patients have the right to decide about what they do or what others can do to their lives and their bodies. Therefore, obtaining consent is necessary for anything other than a routine physical examination and investigation. Informed consent prior medical intervention protects the doctor and the hospital in which he or she works from certain forms of litigation, because the medical intervention was legal, and carried out after authorization by the patient. However, legal protection of the informed consent does not protect the doctor in case of errors and malpractice. The primary care physician obtained informed consent from Mrs. R and I also take the patient’s consent for conducting the interview since any act done without permission, is considered as medical battery. Additionally, …show more content…
Mrs. R is legally competence and free of autonomy right restrictions as she is above 18 years old and mentally healthy. These restrictions are important in valid informed consent (Satyanarayana Rao, 2008).
Confidentiality refers to “the right of an individual to have personal, identifiable medical information kept out of reach of others” (ALAHMAD and DIERICKX, 2012).It includes all identifiable information that the doctor knows about the patient alive or dead such as identity, condition, diagnosis, investigations, results, and treatment. Whether written, computerized, visual or audio, recorded, or simply held in the memory of health professionals, this information is subject to the duty of confidentiality. The doctor, who does not keep their patient’s body and medical information private by sharing them with other parties, may make him legally liable for his actions. The primary health care physician makes sure that the Mrs. R’s information protected from irrelevant eyes and she closed the door to insure privacy. Additionally, the doctor drew the curtains so she can examine Mrs. R and asked us to go outside the office for a while (ALAHMAD and DIERICKX, 2012).
Sociological aspects
According to the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems, the Saudi health care system is in 26th place among 190 of the world’s health systems. Despite this accomplishment, the Saudi health care system faces some obstacles, which need to overcome it by applying new modified strategies and policies. For example, patients experience long waiting lists and difficulties to access health care services, since there is a maldistribution of these facilities and health professionals across geographical areas .in order to face such these challenges, the government expenditure on the Ministry of Health increased from 2.8% in 1970 to 6% in 2005 and 6.2% in 2009. Moreover, the government provides all citizens and expatriates (non- Saudis) working within the public sector with full and free access to all public health care services (Almalki, Fitzgerald and Clark, 2011). As a result, Mrs. R does not face any difficulties to access to the medical services; and she can afford the cost of the health care services.
The process of helping patients it is not just recognizing the signs and symptoms with which they present.
It is also includes consideration of the patient as a person within the context of his/her family, community and workplace. The social determinants of health are the conditions and circumstances into which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These factors can affect the Health and wellbeing positively and negatively. Illness patterns are proportional with income patterns. In other words, people with poor educational achievement which is almost always linked to low income or unemployment, insecure work and poor housing tend to have worse health. Additionally, Mrs. R gets support from her family and friends, which could help in fighting her illness and become healthy. In contrast, if Mrs. R is socially isolated she will tend to have poorer mental and physical health and her condition may deteriorate. Mrs. R said that when she was in her country, she faced some problems related to the accessing to health care services. This can be refer to many reasons one of them is gender discrimination, which is prevelant in Yemen (Marmot,
2011).
Consent also has a legal angle. Patients have the right to decide about what they do or what others can do to their lives and their bodies. Therefore, obtaining consent is necessary for anything other than a routine physical examination and investigation. Informed consent prior medical intervention protects the doctor and the hospital in which he or she works from certain forms of litigation, because the medical intervention was legal, and carried out after authorization by the patient. However, legal protection of the informed consent does not protect the doctor in case of errors and malpractice. The primary care physician obtained informed consent from Mrs. R and I also take the patient’s consent for conducting the interview since any act done without permission, is considered as medical battery. Additionally, …show more content…
Mrs. R is legally competence and free of autonomy right restrictions as she is above 18 years old and mentally healthy. These restrictions are important in valid informed consent (Satyanarayana Rao, 2008).
Confidentiality refers to “the right of an individual to have personal, identifiable medical information kept out of reach of others” (ALAHMAD and DIERICKX, 2012).It includes all identifiable information that the doctor knows about the patient alive or dead such as identity, condition, diagnosis, investigations, results, and treatment. Whether written, computerized, visual or audio, recorded, or simply held in the memory of health professionals, this information is subject to the duty of confidentiality. The doctor, who does not keep their patient’s body and medical information private by sharing them with other parties, may make him legally liable for his actions. The primary health care physician makes sure that the Mrs. R’s information protected from irrelevant eyes and she closed the door to insure privacy. Additionally, the doctor drew the curtains so she can examine Mrs. R and asked us to go outside the office for a while (ALAHMAD and DIERICKX, 2012).
Sociological aspects
According to the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems, the Saudi health care system is in 26th place among 190 of the world’s health systems. Despite this accomplishment, the Saudi health care system faces some obstacles, which need to overcome it by applying new modified strategies and policies. For example, patients experience long waiting lists and difficulties to access health care services, since there is a maldistribution of these facilities and health professionals across geographical areas .in order to face such these challenges, the government expenditure on the Ministry of Health increased from 2.8% in 1970 to 6% in 2005 and 6.2% in 2009. Moreover, the government provides all citizens and expatriates (non- Saudis) working within the public sector with full and free access to all public health care services (Almalki, Fitzgerald and Clark, 2011). As a result, Mrs. R does not face any difficulties to access to the medical services; and she can afford the cost of the health care services.
The process of helping patients it is not just recognizing the signs and symptoms with which they present.
It is also includes consideration of the patient as a person within the context of his/her family, community and workplace. The social determinants of health are the conditions and circumstances into which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These factors can affect the Health and wellbeing positively and negatively. Illness patterns are proportional with income patterns. In other words, people with poor educational achievement which is almost always linked to low income or unemployment, insecure work and poor housing tend to have worse health. Additionally, Mrs. R gets support from her family and friends, which could help in fighting her illness and become healthy. In contrast, if Mrs. R is socially isolated she will tend to have poorer mental and physical health and her condition may deteriorate. Mrs. R said that when she was in her country, she faced some problems related to the accessing to health care services. This can be refer to many reasons one of them is gender discrimination, which is prevelant in Yemen (Marmot,
2011).