Question

Due Thursday (20 pts)

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:

• What is a current biomedical ethics issue in health care today that concerns you? Do you feel it is being handled appropriately? Explain.

Answer 1

Ans.

Issues that involve confidentiality, informed consent and patient relationships can appear out of nowhere, even when health care workers have the best of intentions. What's legal today might not be considered ethical, and there is the ever-present threat of being sued for negligence and malpractice.

Its importance is reflected in different parts of our society such as healthcare, research and our society in general. Bioethics in healthcare brought about awareness to health workers of the medical practice as well as enriching the ability of health workers to further understand the patient as a person.

Some issues about which bioethics concerns itself:

• Physician patient relationship.
• Death and dying.
• Resource Allocation.
• Assisted reproductive techniques and their use.
• Genetic testing and screening.
• Sexuality and gender.
• Environmental ethics.
• Clinical research ethics.
• Disability issues
• Consent, vulnerability, and/or coercion
• Mental health illness, treatments, and care for patients
• Ethical treatment of research subjects in clinical trials
• Ethical treatment of animals.

While today is a time of growth, it is also a time of growing pains. Duly, the medical field currently faces four prominent challenges: service integration, service quality, Internet connected medical device security and publicly sustainable pharmaceutical pricing.

Challenges Facing Healthcare Workers

• Lack of advancement opportunities. ...
• Work overload. ...
• Poor salary. ...
• Too few staff. ...
• Poor organizational culture. ...
• Lack of mentoring. ...
• Poor personal fit with boss. ...
• Limited or not enough access to technology.
• Lack of training.