Question

My questions to you are:

1.How much of a role does or should medical ethics play in regulating physician behavior?

2.Should government regulators of physicians and health care (including medical boards, CMS, HHS, state agencies, etc.) take medical ethics into account when developing laws and regulations?

Answer 1

1. A physician’s behaviour towards the patient, work and other team members is an important key to maintain the quality standards. The patient is highly reliable on the physicians knowledge, judgement and skills to diagnose and treat the medical conditions. Under such circumstances, it becomes very crucial to regulate the behaviour of physician through medical ethics. This will help the physician from misrepresenting their qualifications, making unfounded claims for cures, failing to exercise due diligence in providing care, or engaging in other forms of illegal behaviours. All this will yield better results and provide large benefits to the patient as well as physician.

Thus we can say that medical ethics play a major role in regulating physicians conduct.

2. Using of Medical ethics is implementation of facts, logics and values to the medical practice. Keeping medical ethics in mind and using them while framing laws and policies will make such laws and policies more practical and easier for professionals to follow them. It will help the professionals to respect the patient, make sound judgement and keep a clear conscious.