IHP 420: Healthcare Ethics and Malpractice Case Study Analysis

This assignment presents a case study analyzing the ethical components of a healthcare malpractice case. It identifies ethical issues related to patient care and applies ethical theories like autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice to promote a safe and quality healthcare experience. The study explores the importance of shared decision-making between clinicians and patients, addressing how open communication and transparency can resolve ethical dilemmas. Furthermore, it discusses the impact of ethical guidelines on healthcare professionals, patients, and the public, emphasizing the need for accurate reporting and trust within healthcare organizations. The analysis also touches upon the difficulties in providing care and the potential for self-justifying medicine, highlighting the importance of balancing patient well-being with the realities of healthcare provision.

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“Ethical Components of Malpractice Case”
Question : Ethical issues & ethical theory
Answer : To serve patients with efficiency and dignity is an inherent part of a doctor's
moral and expert values. Despite this, because of the lapses of a few doctors relating to
patient’s safety, malpractices including using defensive medicines are being reported
frequently and the overall situation is deteriorating with every passing day . Even the
events are not revealed to patients. The risk of medical malpractice litigation by
physicians seems to be a relevant factor in analyzing the proceedings. The purpose of this
study was to analyze the circumstances under which the association is affected on
account of the danger of lawsuits for malpractice and the irresponsible performance of
doctors.
To resolve the issues for patients to get a quality healthcare experience, the four
principles of Health Care Ethics are applicable. ("Bioethic Tools: Principles of
Bioethics", 2019)
1. Autonomy Patients should be allowed to participate in expressing their own decisions,
regardless of whether the medical provider thinks that these decisions may or may not be
beneficial to the patient.
2. Beneficiary: This principle suggests that healthcare providers should do their best to
benefit the patient in all situation. All proposed treatments and procedures should be
made applicable to suit the patient in the best possible way.
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3. Non-maleficence: This principle is the ultimate goal for all practitioners, and says that
medical service providing agencies need to investigate whether the society or other
people are affected by the decision, though it may benefit the patient.
4. Justice: The principle of justice says that every medical decision must be fair.
In a multidimensional care locations each event should be recorded in such a fashion that
there should be transparency and the events can be revealed. In absence of such events, it
may result in loss of information and result in errors of communication. Hospital bosses
and healthcare specialists should take this change as a positive one and help them to
explain any situation and create a situation where complaints will be minimized.
Physicians need to distinguish that they can trust on the hospital organization after
reporting an occurrence. To create an environment of accurate care prospects, patients
and the general community should be well-versed about the dangers and difficulty in
providing health care. (Huxtable, 2013)
Question :Patient-Physician shared decision making model
Answer : Prior investigation has obtained many clarifications for the ill-fated outcome for
the patients. For example, doctors should reserve practice of self-justified medicine
against the prescribed norms to spoil the patient-doctor association. More damages occur
when the events are not declared. A shortage of time, a lack of response in the events
informed beforehand, a denial of actual happenings by the hospital authorities, and
because of disheartened doctors or nurses losing confidence because of occurrence of
similar episodes are the root causes for such errors which resulted in fatal death of the
patient.
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Doctors are hesitant to reveal incidents to patients since this has become a culture, a
dearth of self-assurance in their communiqué services and the patient’s or close relatives’
lack of knowledge in this field.
Question : The ethical guidelines and their effects on healthcare system including
healthcare professionals, patients and general public.
Answer : The main influence revealed by the study was the difficulty of providing the
agreed care. Lack of maintenance and unavailability of essential components leads to
manipulation of the process and management of available resources that have fatal
consequences
Several educational measures highlight the risk of abuse for the practice of the self-
justifying drug. Doubts about the monetary burden and high cost of commitment
obligations also seem to be clearly linked to the practice of self-justifying medicines, the
risk of litigation will discourage physicians from reporting events to patients. Healthcare
professionals could flop after a mistake to provide patients with all the information they
need, as there seems to be no legal protection against disclosure laws. If physicians
believe that revelation causes few patients to complain, it is more likely that they will be
forced to reveal the actual facts under these circumstances.
If inconsistencies due to complex operational measures like heart surgery are more
widely accepted by the community as risks of procedural errors, the difficulty of care
could turn out to be a justification for healthcare association, though there may be
instances of lawsuit relating to malpractice.
References :
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Bioethic Tools: Principles of Bioethics. (2019). Retrieved from
https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/tools/princpl.html
Huxtable, R. (2013). For and against the four principles of biomedical ethics. Clinical
Ethics, 8(2-3), 39-43. doi: 10.1177/1477750913486245
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