Ethics Case Study February 28‚ 2011 NAME HERE Jerry’s medical training does not qualify him to issue the refill order. The patient’s physician is the one who needs to determine whether or not the patient should have a prescription of Valium issued for his flight or not. Jerry’s medical training does not qualify him to issue any prescription to any patient regardless of what it is and who it is for. If a patient’s prescription request was for control of high blood pressure that the patient
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Running head: ETHICS CASE STUDY Ethic Case Study University of Phoenix HCS 335 January 11‚ 2011 “Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’s office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium‚ an antidepressant medication‚ called in right away to his pharmacy‚ since he is leaving for the airport in thirty
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Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility HCS/335 Ethics Case Study Instructor: David Moody Sara Godbey June 24‚ 2013 Medical laws have been put into place to protect not only the patient‚ but also the physicians‚ nurses‚ and medical office staff. The laws were put into place to ensure that these professionals follow the correct procedures and steps that only qualified persons follow. The definition of practicing medicine has also been clearly explained. Those professionals who do not
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Ethics Case Study Jerry McCall is an office assistant for Dr. William’s. Jerry has received training as both a medical assistant and Licensed practical nurses (LPN). During the time the receptionist is out to lunch Jerry is covering for her. Jerry is faced with a common problem in the health care field today. Jerry has been asked to call in a refill for Valium to a pharmacy for a patient. This paper will address why Jerry is not qualified to refill any prescription medication. If Jerry is protected
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Presentation Co-Habition 15’ I. Intro (Hưng): 1. Introduce the group 2. What is Cohabittion? Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together in an intimate relationship‚ particularly an emotionally and/or sexually intimate one‚ on a long-term or permanent basis. II. Body (Nhàn‚ Hạc‚ Cúc‚ Trí): 1. Advantages (Nhàn‚ Trí) i. Protesting the Institution of Marriage * Despite religious‚ cultural and legal biases against non-traditional unions
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BUSINESS ETHICS CASE STUDY 1) What are Joseph’s ethical problems? Joseph is faced with some ethical problems such as honesty‚ conflicts of interest‚ fairness and bribes. He found out that Carl and other employees were using (kickback) with their customers. Even if the Alcon’s hand book didn’t say anything about the kickback‚ but it include this statement" our company stands for the right thing at all time and giving our customers the best products for the best price" so Joseph and the employees
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Ethics Case Study Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions. The law guides many decisions but some decisions require ethical considerations. Making good ethical decisions is not always as easy as it seems. Making ethical decisions is even harder when the primary intention is to be helpful‚ but it is beyond an employee’s qualifications. Jerry’s Qualifications versus Necessary Qualifications Qualification as a medical assistant and a licensed practical
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Eiffel Tower and Humanism I. Introduction A. Hook: The Eiffel tower is a beautiful structure known around the world. Located on the Champ de Mars in Paris‚ France‚ the Eiffel Tower is one of the most well-known structures in the world. Over 200 million people had visited the Eiffel Tower‚ since its inception. B. Thesis: The Eiffel Tower illustrates the philosophy of Humanism. We can see this connection to humanism because of The World Expo‚ The usages of the tower‚ and the Logical design
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Ethics Case Study Merck & Company invested millions of dollars to develop a treatment for river blindness‚ a disease of the developing world that has infected 18 million people and poses a risk for 127 million people. River blindness is caused by the bite of black flies that deposit larvae of a parasite under the skin of their victims. When the larvae mature into adult worms‚ the adults reproduce millions of the immature forms of the parasites that migrate throughout the tissues of the body causing
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GROWING POPULATION Overpopulation is everyone’s problem At one point‚ the prevailing wisdom was that nations needed robust birthrates to protect their economic welfare‚ and that if only we could produce food more efficiently‚ feeding the Earth’s burgeoning population wouldn’t be a problem. Now‚ with 1 billion of the world’s people chronically hungry and the population expected to increase by 50% before the end of the century‚ we know better. Or we ought to. A recent five-part series by Times
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