Health and Medical Ethics in Medical Practice Discussion Essay

Health and Medical Ethics in Medical Practice Discussion Essay

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You will submit a essay synthesizing course readings and outside research into an articulate and cogent response to the following question: are there occasions in the delivery of health care when deception is warranted?

Must read:

Munson: Chapter 3, pages 253 – 296

Based on your reading of the textbook, Scripture, and additional sources:

Review the following scenarios of medical deception provided and rank them with commentary regarding appropriate behavior (most appropriate to least appropriate):

A physician intentionally submits faulty information to an insurance company in an attempt to help a sick patient pay for needed healthcare services.

A physician recognizes the patient has psychosomatic symptoms and prescribes a placebo pill in hopes that the emotional relief of the placebo will help the patient  recover (thus saving the patient from possible treatments which would be  more invasive and/or extensive).

A physician does not provide full disclosure of a surgical procedure because he/she suspects the  patient is not emotionally stable enough to handling all the details of  the surgery, treatment and recovery.

Review the following scenarios and rank them with commentary regarding a physician’s ethics (most ethical to least ethical):

Physicians accept pharmaceutical perks if they recommend a specific drug for treatment.

When  prescribing pain medication, some physicians may “undertreat” a patient  if they sense their patient may have a propensity for addiction.

A  physician treating a patient with a terminal illness fails to disclose  secondary ailments/diseases which may arise (in an attempt to protect  the patient’s emotional stability and will to fight).

Recount  occasions from your personal life experiences of being lied to/misled  by a health care clinician and, in retrospect, comment on the  correctness of this decision.

Provide a rationale (in terms of  biblical commandments, guidelines, or inferences) on whether or not a  Christian clinician should deceive a patient.

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