Diverse Populations and Health Care
March 8, 2023Ethical Issues in Practice, End Of Lie, Economics, Abuse Issues, and Ethical Processes in Organizations
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nIntroduction
nAnencephaly is a fatal and incurable congenital malformation, which involves the lack of cranial vault. The use of no life-prolonging technique raises serious ethical issues for both the patients and health facility. Ethical decision making in such cases should be based on the principles of justice, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and autonomy. The principle of autonomy calls for respect or autonomy of the person (Sprung et al., 2014). Therefore, each person should have the right to make his own preferred decisions that others must respect. In these cases, the health facility should not deny the mother of the child her freedom on use of life-prolonging machines (Grant et al., 2014).
nThe principle of beneficence relates to the obligation to enhance the good hence the health facilitated have a responsibility to do good to the patient (Pizzo & Poplack, 2015). Additionally, the health practitioners should always support what is most advantageous to the patient in the management of anencephaly (Grant et al., 2014). They should also seek to benefit the sick.
nThe principle of non-maleficence encourages the hospital to ensure that the child with anencephaly is free from any kind of harm. Therefore, there should be no injury or suffering. Therefore, the physicians should not make decisions that contribute to serious damage or harm to patients when performing any kind of medication and diagnostic (Harriss & Atkinson, 2015).
nBased on the principle of justice, the allocation of scarce resources in the treatment of patients with anencephaly should be fairly assigned to all patients. Therefore, the process of mutual insurance offers such patient the same circumstances to promote fair access to resources (Grant et al., 2014). When resources are allocated to the patients, the effects of that selection on other groups must also be evaluated. The physicians must also pay close attention to how the use of resources among patients suffering from Anencephaly affects other patients (Pizzo & Poplack, 2015).
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nPhysicians handling patients with life-threatening conditions must ensure that bioethics is in conformity with the patients (Pizzo & Poplack, 2015). For instance, physicians have a moral obligation to adopt and define ethical procedures and to deliberate them as priorities in their practice (Grant et al., 2014). Through respects of principles of ethics, they will ensure that patients receive quality services.
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nReferences
nGrant, R. A., Halpern, C. H., Baltuch, G. H., OReardon, J. P., & Caplan, A. (2014). Ethical considerations in deep brain stimulation for psychiatric illness. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 21(1), 1-5.
nHarriss, D. J., & Atkinson, G. (2015). Ethical standards in sport and exercise science research: 2016 update. International journal of sports medicine, 36(14), 1121-1124.
nPizzo, P. A., & Poplack, D. G. (2015). Principles and practice of pediatric oncology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
nSprung, C. L., Truog, R. D., Curtis, J. R., Joynt, G. M., Baras, M., Michalsen, A., … & Bulpa, P. (2014). Seeking worldwide professional consensus on the principles of end-of-life care for the critically ill. The Consensus for Worldwide End-of-Life Practice for Patients in Intensive Care Units (WELPICUS) study. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 190(8), 855-866.
