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Essay on Health Care Ethics

   

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Running head: ESSAY ON HEALTH CARE ETHICSESSAY ON HEALTH CARE ETHICSName of the students:Name of the University:Author note:

1ESSAY ON HEALTH CARE ETHICSThe health care ethics are one of the most important content in the recent days. Theethical issues such as, discrimination in access to the health care, end life issue and allocation oflimited medication have become one of the most controversial discussions (Faden et al., 2013).The case study is about Amos, a high school student, who was resided in a residential propertynear the school. During the outburst of cholera in the school, most of the students were sufferingfrom the transmissible disease. Amos was not spared from the disease. Severe symptoms thatwere noticed within the students admitted in the hospital include abdominal pain, vomiting,thirst, profuse watery diarrhea, muscle cramp, irritability and restlessness. Due to shortage ofadequate resources, the triage doctors and nurses decided to provide health services only to thestudent residing in the boarding of the school. Amos decided to return home as he was not aboarder, but within few hours of his arrival, he died due to severe dehydration and shock.There are many ethical issues regarding health care. According to the case study, themain issue is equal access to the health care services to all. It is the purpose of every health careservice providers to make their service equally available to all people. All patients are needed tobe considered as equally important. Equal access to the health care service is the basic right of allpeople. Thus, the issue has become an important part of the discussion regarding health careethics (Kangasniemi et al., 2013). Another ethical issue related to the case study is limitedallocation of common goods (Doody & Noonan, 2016). Adequate medicine and resource scarcityoccurs mainly due to the lack of economic resources. Proper medication and vaccination arerequired in case of communicable diseases. Shortage of medication makes it difficult to providethe treatment to all the people with need. End of life issue is an additional ethical issue of healthcare regarding the case study. Shortage of medical resources and unequal access to the healthcare services can be the reason behind the death of a patient. The issue of end of life is increasing

2ESSAY ON HEALTH CARE ETHICSday by day with the increase in global population. Thus, it becomes one of the most affectingethical issues related to health care service (Lillemoen & Pedersen, 2013).Human dignity in the field of health care is an important factor to be maintained (Edlundet al., 2013). It is important to provide ethical behavior and value to every patient. In the casestudy, the triage nurses and doctors decided to limit the treatment to the student residing in theboarding. This was unethical, as all the students had received the illness within the school. It wasthe duty of the health care professionals to take the responsibility of all the students. Amos hadargued with the school authority that while residing in the residential property, he was still astudent of the school. It was the duty of the concerned authority to provide proper treatmentconsidering his severe health condition. Though his argument regarding help did not work and hewas sent back to home without any health care service. Thus, the decision of the doctors and thenurses of providing limited health care service was a step taken to give value to some studentsand hamper the dignity of many others. The main reason of restricting the health services wasshortage of adequate medical resources. The students who were residing within the schoolpremises were the first priority of the concerned authority. Thus, the authority decided to providethe limited medicines to them only. However, the purpose of every health care organization is toprovide equal medical service to all. It is the right of every individual to avail adequate healthcare service including proper medication, food, healthy lifestyle and healthy environment to live.In order to provide medication to the boarders the health care professionals neglected the severecondition of the other students residing outside the school premises. It was a case of enforcementof human rights. Amos was the student of the school when he was suffering from Cholera;hence, it was his right to access treatment from the health care professionals who had taken theresponsibility of other students residing in the boarding. Their action of sending Amos back to

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