Peer Disparities In Healthcare

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I wonder if they would have treated him differently if they had knowledge of his daughter’s position. The health care worker doesn’t realize peer disparities affects patient care and they suffer. I’ve heard and seen it all; that’s not my job, why can she/he do it, I refuse or I’m going to ignore. In the meantime, poor patients are left stewing in their own waste, unfed and mistreated. The end result to your story, they mistreated the wrong patient and lost their jobs. However, can you imagine the amount of patients that don’t have family or friends to advocate for them? Healthcare providers must abide by Code of Ethics and Hippocratic Oath, for the person respect of autonomy, benevolence, non-maleficence, and

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