Intro to Medical Ethics Flashcards
Precision medicine
is the shorthand term—adopted by the US government and many others—for care that is highly personalized to each individual’s genome, behavior, social, and environmental factors.
The Four C’s of Malpractice Prevention
- caring
- communication
- competence
- charting
A treating practitioner’s duty of care
includes the duty to give the patient enough information in non-technical language to allow the patient to understand and to make a meaningful choice among the available treatment options.
Autonomy vs beneficience
Autonomy-health care providers should respect people’s capacity for self determination
Beneficence- health care providers should promote patient welfare (consistent with respecting patient autonomy)
Protected Health Information (PHI) or Protected Medical Information (PMI)
This is any data about the patient that would tend to identify the individual: name, hospital #, SSN, diagnosis, lab results, past or current photos, etc,
Privacy Officer (PO)
Each facility will have an employee who is responsible for implementing and enforcing this HIPPA law.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Primary goal of HIPAA regulations are to protect individuals’ rights to privacy and confidentiality and assure the security of electronic transfer of personal information
Pillars of Professionalism
Excellence – exceed ordinary expectation, maximal competence, life-long learning;
Humanism - stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs;
Altruism - best interests of patient: not self-interests; Accountability - patient, society, profession;
Duty- acceptance of a commitment to service;
Honor and Integrity - highest standards of behavior,
fairness, truthful, keep promises, meet commitments;
Respect for persons - humanism, collegiality, dignity;
Confidentiality – ensure communications are private, fidelity.
Moral Agency
Moral Agency is the capacity to act according to the concepts of right and wrong and of virtue & vice – basis of ethical conduct
Components of moral agency are –
- Character
- Values
- Moral Sensibility
- Moral Responsiveness
- Moral Reasoning
- Moral Discernment
- Accountability
- Moral Advocacy and Leadership
Liberal Individualism
Utilitarianism
of its respect for the rights of all of the parties it affects.
Holds that right actions are those that result in the most beneficial balance of good over bad consequences for everyone involved.
Distribution of
Scarce Healthcare Resource
Macro & Micro Allocation
are three distinct levels at which decisions about the allocation of resources affect the provision of health care:
- among health care and other socially important expenditures;
- within the health care sector; and
- among individual patients.
