Ethics and Research in Professional Context

Running head: ETHICS AND RESEARCH IN PROFESSIONLAL CONTEXT
Ethics and Research in Professional Context

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Case Study..................................................................................................................................2
Ethical Issues..............................................................................................................................3
Ethical Theories.........................................................................................................................3
Different views and stand...........................................................................................................4
Potential Conflicts and Points of Agreement.............................................................................5
Paternalism and Autonomy....................................................................................................5
Influence.....................................................................................................................................6
Professional Conduct.................................................................................................................7
Moral Solution...........................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
An ethical dilemma had been considered as the clash between the two things or decisions.
Dilemmas can be rise out of any situation such as behaviour or attitude or any conduct. The
profession dilemma has been considered as the ethical problem that requires an individual to
choose the particular course of action. In a professional dilemma, a choice is considered
either right or wrong. If the choice is given than professionals must choose a right answer,
other choice is unmistakable the wrong answer. In this report, the analysis of the case study
of a doctor who has leak the confidential information of his client and will be analysed by
applying the ethical theories. The every member included in the case study have some view
in relation to the dilemma that has risen in the case and how they view this dilemma will be
discussed in this report. The potential conflicts that will be analysed in this case study in view
of many theories of ethics and by applying the principle of potential conflicts and points of
agreement. The dilemma will also been analysed that how different people of sex, age,
religion will view this dilemma. The dilemma also raises the legal issue and the professional
conduct and for that, various laws shall be implied. Therefore, the best moral solution that
can apply to dilemma will be discussed in this report.
Case Study
Mrs M was the patient of GP and had been suffering from the strange symptom of multiple
sclerosis. Mrs M realized that the she could be unaffected for some time and therefore she
said to her doctor than to keep the information confidential about her disease from everyone
including her family. The Doctor GP was dissatisfied with her decision as she argues that she
does not wants that her children and her husband will treat her differently. GP had shared this
information with her husband and her children who are also the patient of GP. Mrs M wants
to look after her children and she does not want that after knowing than it will bother them
about the disease.
The ethical dilemma that had raised in this case that Mr GP has done by giving the
confidential information that was between the doctor and patient had been leaked. The doctor
has the duty to put the information confidential of her patient. It is an object of trust and
equity that the doctor has the duty in his professional context. Therefore, in this case study

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the dilemma has arisen between the doctor and patient relation of confidentiality, trust and
equity (Dyrbye, et. al., 2015).
Ethical Issues
The dilemmas give rise to the ethical issues and In this case study there are certain ethical
issues has given rise. There are certain ethical issues that has given rise in this case that the
information leaked by the doctor to her family members was wrong and he had breached his
professional duties towards its patient. Whether Mr GP had breached the trust of her client?.
The information given by Mr GP was the question of integrity.
There are various ethical theories as the views of the will be analysed in accordance with
these theories. The theories had been considered as the main framework that had been
evaluated must been considered as the basic aim to develop the conditions that are behaved
the conditions that had been analysed that the conditions that had been analysed that the
conditions of escalation that has arrived in the circumstances that there are laws that had been
analysed
Ethical Theories
The first ethical theories are the Utilitarianism ethical theory that is also called consequential
theory. This Utilitarianism ethical theory is part of a normative ethical theory. The judges of
this theory states the rightness and wrongness of the case is based on its consequences. The
theory has the basic aim to provide greater good for a greater number of people. The theory
suggests that anything that provides the good for many people shall be considered as right
(Doescher, et. al., 2017). The theory of Utilitarianism that was first detailed by Jeremy
Bentham an English professor. In his believe humanity has been surrounded around two
things. He stated that nature has surrounded humankind by two sovereign masters that is pain
and pleasure. According to Bentham, everyone wants pleasure in his or her life and no one
want pain. The theory is just based on what is right and what gives the pleasure (Broad,
2014).
The second theory is the Deontological theory that is a part of normative ethical theories. The
terms have arrived from the Greek words for duty (deon) and science (or study) of (logos).
This theory has the opposite views than the utilitarian ethical theory. Deontological theory
talks about morality and does not think about the consequences of the situation. This theory