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Ethics in Medicine

 

            In examining the American College Healthcare Executives' Code of Ethics, it serves as a .
             standard for ethical behavior for its affiliates. It pertains to persons in the healthcare field, and .
             how they deal with their proffesional relationships, as far as colleages, patients, and others are.
             served. The code of ethics is comprised of various principles that are used in the decision making .
             of day to day activities. For the most part it takes away from the guess work of the proffesion, .
             allowing the affiliates to keep their personal beliefs, and feelings in check. It does not really .
             pertain to the emotional aspects of the career, instead on universal methods that should work for .
             everyone as a whole. As previously mentioned, the code of ethics is a universal generalization, that .
             is a standard for all those who are concerned, but there are definately instances where your .
             personal beliefs may win over in the situation, where morally you cannot follow the guidelines set .
             forth for you. In this particular paper it is for me to look at a situation where my own personal .
             beliefs are conflicted with these certain principles. Personally, after reviewing the principles, I .
             see nothing that conflicts with me morally. The code of ethics all seem within reason, and not .
             asking too much of any particular person. I do however know of a situation where I was not .
             personally involved, but can look at the conflict through the eyes of those who were. Of all the .
             possible principle that could have been a problem to deal with, the one in this situation deals with .
             the relationship of doctor to patient. The principle states: "Avoid practicing or facilitating .
             discrimination and institute safeguards to prevent discriminatory organizational practices.".
             As the situation has it there is a 40 year-old patient originally from China who has had .
             lumbar problems for a little over a year. The condition includes dull pains in her right leg and the .


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