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Beauchamp and Childress Assignment

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Added on  2020-10-22

Beauchamp and Childress Assignment

   Added on 2020-10-22

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DEATH AND DYING, MEDICALETHICS
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONHealth and social care sector works on ethics. These ethical aspects describe differencebetween right and wrong. Each medical professional is required to follow these ethical aspects inan appropriate manner while providing care to the patients. They have to deal properly with thepeople who are going to die soon (Beauchamp, 2016). Ethical aspects play significant role inend-of-life care system. Present study will describe Beauchamp and Childress approaches. It willexplain medical ethics that might cause conflict when caring for dying people. MAIN BODYEthical dilemmas associated with deathDeath of human being is inevitable occurrence. In the recent time, technologies havebeen upgraded, these technological advancement have changed scenario of natural death.Medical professionals have to behave with patients appropriately. It is their moral responsibilityto tell right thing about their health all the time (Neighbour, 2017). One of the main ethicaldilemmas in HSC is “right to die and duty to tell truth”. When patients ask with the professionalsabout their health condition and how long it will take time to get recovered, then if the person'ssituation is critical and individual is going to die soon then in such condition, it becomes difficultfor the practitioners to tell truth to the person about their medical condition. Ethical dilemmaoccurs in the situation when there are two major ethical standards but they conflict with eachother in specific situation (Gillon, 2015). Ethical dilemmas can be defined as conflict situation that get arise in-front of medicalprofessionals while treating care users. Another major ethical dilemma that occurs in health andsocial care sector (HSC) is miscommunication. It is very important for the doctors tocommunicate properly about medical condition of patients. This helps the person in making ownin regarding treatment (Beauchamp, 2016). But if condition of the person is serious, then medicalprofessional get failed to coordinate well with the care users and they have to provide themtreatment without informing them. Beauchamp and Childress’ four principles approachBeauchamp and Childress have given several principles of biomedical ethics. Four majorprinciples are: Autonomy, Beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. One of the main principlesis Autonomy. It is considered as an essential moral ethic which describes the principle of respect.Medical professionals have to give respect to the patients (Principles of Bioethics. 2017). Each1
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