HAD 600 Prof. Marvin Lee Isaac Adzaho The website contained some written work on healthcare ethics. Mention was made on how the four principles of health care ethics positively affect patients’ health care. The health care principles were developed by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in the 1985 Principles of Biomedical Ethics to make provision for or serve as a guide that will help medical professionals to confront challenges that bothered around ethics during medical practice. The four principles of ethics were explained and a case study that encompasses the practical use of the four principles was discussed in line with the expectations of both patient and doctor. The site also discussed the role of a health care administrator, and expresses …show more content…
The site explains or defines health care in its simplest form as being a set of moral principles, beliefs and rules that guides us in making choices about medical care. The article makes mention of the sense of right and beliefs of right as the core of health care ethics as being the rights we possess and duties we owe others. It also offered a very simple definition explanation of the four principles of health care ethics and weighs it as equal in priority in theory. In practice however, the article identifies the respect for patient autonomy as a priority over other …show more content…
Morrison, EdH MPH, LPC, CHESS, a professor in the School of Health Administration at Texas State University and Berth Furlong, PhD, HD, RN, an associate professor in the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. In chapter one of the print book, Theory of Health Care Ethics, Summer, a contributor contributes a scholarly account of the main theories that apply to the ethics of health care situations. His contribution was based on the fact that one needs a foundation in ethics to be able to have a structure upon which one can defend the many issues arising from the complexities of health care in the 21st century. He reasons that as health care is becoming sophisticated, it will come along with a corresponding complex issues bothering on ethics and for that matter it is a necessity, as a player in the health care industry, acquire knowledge in ethical principles which would make one versatile in handling the challenges that will come about as a result of the constantly expanding scope of