Freedom to make healthcare choices

Introduction My personal ethics include deontological ethics, beneficence, and nonmaleficence, all of which can be utilized in professional ethics. However, personal and professional ethics may clash in difficult healthcare dilemmas, so it is important to distinguish between them. Deontological ethics can be referred to as “duty-based ethics” because it concentrates on a person’s duties to others, telling the truth, and keeping promises (Pozgar, 2016, p. 11). Beneficence is the principle of…

governmental or societal concern is largely deliberated. While government should not interfere with personal lifestyle choices, obesity is largely in part a governmental concern because government care programs negatively impact the economy. The government financially accommodates the weakening economy and healthcare industry caused by people who may not be able to afford proper healthcare, nutrition or weight management. While government assists the poor, it should also assist in initiatives…

literally means self-governing. It denotes having the freedom to make independent choices (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014, p. 525). In healthcare,…

Marx and Nozick make compelling arguments against inequality, however, their arguments fall short when compared to arguments in favour of equality. Equality is a level of impartiality either in services or wealth for citizens to provide fair opportunities. Citizens have some uniform treatment by the state in order to remove barriers between individuals. These contentions vary between levels of intrusive means; they allow more or less freedom for citizens. More equality stems from more intrusion,…

Get ‘Em Out of the Shed After reading “Get Em Out of the Shed” I started to think of my encounter with the healthcare system. Although I have never been to the hospital for anything as serious as the main character in the article, I can say I’ve felt like a box to check off on a to do list rather that a patient before. Reading this article motivates me to assure that no matter how tired I get, or how mundane work gets to not let the treatment I give be only focused on efficiency. One think I…

issues are brought up, one way or the other. Healthcare administrators continually find themselves in different situations where they are needed to make the right decision for the well-being of their patients (or clients), and their organization. Various things bring about ethical issues in long-term care, and religious commitment is not a very rare one in long-term care. Even though the United States recognize the right to exercise religious freedom, but if that right will lead to breaking…

“autonomy” simply means the fundamental freedom of choice and independence. Many of us will not go beyond those words and understand how it can be applied in a medical setting. Patient autonomy is the right of a patient to make decisions about their individual medical care without the influence of their healthcare provider. This concept is put in place because it gives an individual the freedom to choose their course of treatment, whether the healthcare professional’s own values conflict with…

Today, healthcare givers are faced with ethical choices as they provide services for a complex and multicultural society. When experiencing such a diversity, it is unclear as to what code of ethics they should employ to ensure the patient rights are not humiliated. To solve this, Beauchamps & Childress (1979), came up with a guide commonly known as principles of biomedical ethics. This is a set of ethics based on four moral principles that will give guidance to caregivers’ conduct whenever a…

With a hard stance for negative rights Leonard Peikoff claims that universal healthcare is not only unjust but immoral. In the article “Healthcare is Not a Right” Peikoff goes on to state that universal healthcare takes away peoples overall rights of freedom. When focusing on the Declaration of Independence Peikoff argues that the only negative rights people have as Americans is the right to have life, property and the pursuit of happiness. This means that the right people are obligated to have…

implementing private healthcare. I claim that Canada should provide public healthcare because helps to achieve equal opportunities and because healthcare is a human necessity citizens should receive. I then address the counterarguments that private healthcare could provide some benefits to Canadians because patients do not have to wait too long to have an appointment,…