Question

1. What are the ethical dilemmas and legal considerations families and providers will be faced with? Do you think that these ethical dilemmas and legal considerations are more important than they were in the past? 2. What ethics issues related to death, medicine, and the family decision making do you think will apply and be present as the patient experience the dying process today?

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Answer 1

1. Providers face ethical dilemmas and legal considerations in their day-day profession. Usually, the providers face ethical dilemmas in achieving the quality of care with limited resources, increased work pressure on the physician, and compromised patient safety care. Families suffered from increased health care cost, lack to access to care, health disparities. Both the provider and families are facing challenges on four major principles such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

Consent:

The informed consent has to be taken by giving adequate information to the patient and the families. The information should be sufficient enough to take the right decision by the patient. Ethical dilemmas arise when the provider and the families have different opinions on treatment options. The provider has to respect the patient values and to do good for them.

Professional ethics:

The provider should be within its limit by maintaining their professional ethics. The provider should maintain a therapeutic relationship and should be truthful to the patient. Behaving unprofessionally, using vulnerable words, disrespect of patient, doing against lawsuits all leads to ethical challenges.

Privacy and confidentiality of data:

Patient have right to protect their health information with privacy and confidentiality. Informing of patient information to the families and relatives without patient consent again results in ethical dilemmas. Misusing of patient information, sharing of information without patient's knowledge are against the HIPPA privacy rule.

Access to care:

Access to care is the right of the patient. Fail to provide adequate care with utmost quality and safety is against the legal law. Disparting the patient based on race, religion, ethnicity, color, is malpractice which increases ethical dilemmas on the providers. Equality of care is necessary for all patients. Improper care and misdiagnosing of the condition also result in ethical dilemmas.

Currently, ethica dilemmas and legal considerations are considered more important, because it increases the quality of care and patient safety. It promotes to take a clinical decision and ethical judgment during a critical situation. Legal considerations protect the rights of patient and provider from an issue. It leads a way to health care reform.