Issues In Healthcare Ethics And Difficult Ethical Problems

Issues in Healthcare Ethics
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Issues in Healthcare Ethics
Health care management encounters difficult ethical problems more frequently than other professionals. Improper health care management results to medical issues. Medical error is one of the moral dilemma experienced in healthcare services. Medical error is an adverse effect of care which can be preventable. This error includes inaccurate diagnosis of a disease, syndrome, injury or even an infection. It is estimated that in 2013 approximately 142,000 people died worldwide from medical treatment errors (Hall & Bobinski, 2014). Sometimes, health care administrations are hesitant to admit fault whenever a medical error happens because the management might fear being used against the facility in court. Nonetheless, situations that end up resolved and a change designed prevents similar mistakes from happening. This paper discusses medical errors as a dilemma in healthcare management and the ethical principles used to resolve this dilemma.
Medical error is among the leading causes of patient's death globally. In healthcare management, a medical error occurs when a planned action fails to be completed accordingly. The health management is eligible to create a safe healthcare framework that ensures patients' safety from accidental injuries. The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) states that nearly all health physicians make mistakes that they neither disclose to patients and nor their families (Hall & Bobinski, 2014). Facing a medical error has never been easy in health facilities thus making it hard for such situation from being revealed. Most of this medical errors are contributed by poor communication, improper documentation, and negligence and physicians misconducts. Complicated technologies can also result in medical errors.
Health care management dilemmas result to systematic issues and severe physical injuries to patients. These mistakes can also result in psychological, financial and emotional problems to healthcare physicians and organization. Healthcare providers who commit these medical errors experience e...