Question

Subject : Healthcare ethics

Why should truth-telling and confidentiality be important? What does Howard Brody mean

when he talks about the “transparency standard” as a solution to the “legalistic exercise”

conversation” standard” regarding truth-telling?

Answer 1

ANSWER :

HEALTH CARE ETHICS : Health care ethics is defined as a group of beliefs, values, moral principles used to make medical care decisions. The health care ethics are used for beliefs of right and wrong of health care providers to provide patients care. These are otherwise known as Medical Ethics.

- In Health care ethics it is important to maintain truth telling and confidentiality about patient health information. As health care providers include physicians, nurses, medical practitioners all of them are having the responsibility to maintain confidentiality of patient information. Truth telling focuses on the disclosing of health status to patient and family members, recovering from disease conditions, current health status of the patient, legal issues all the aspects regarding health status of patient should be in a genuine way so that the trust relation is maintained between patients and health care providers. Along with that maintaining of confidentiality is also an important factor in health care ethics. Confidentiality is keeping the patients personal information in a privacy way so that any third person is unaware of that information until patient willingness is present to disclose their information. Both truth telling and confidentiality are the vital aspects of health care delivery to patients.

- Howard Brody means "Transparency Standard" as they are the legal standards informed consent as a process of conversion for a effective medical practice and patient care without any judicial reviews for effective medical practice. Performing the health care practices to patients truth telling and avoiding of unnecessary disclosure of personal information of patients to others without patient consent is strictly avoided. In some instances the medical practice will become problematic and legal issues arise when not following the standards, morals and values of health care ethics.