Case 8 : Personalizing Health Care
Case Study 8 : PERSONALIZING HEALTH CARE Challenges A health care professional working at a hospital notices a colleague frequently treats their patients in an impersonal manner. He politely calls his attention regarding this. Question Why should health care be personalized? Solutions Depersonalization of health care arises as one negative consequence of specialization in the […]
Case 7 : Truth Telling to the Dying
Case Study 6 :FREE AND INFORMED CONSENT Challenges A 62-year old female came to the Out-Patient Department with a chief complaint of gangrene on the left foot. She was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, subsequently admitted to the hospital’s charity ward, and informed of the need for an operation, to which she readily agreed. After the […]
Case 6 : Free and Informed Consent
Case Study 6 :FREE AND INFORMED CONSENT Challenges A 62-year old female came to the Out-Patient Department with a chief complaint of gangrene on the left foot. She was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, subsequently admitted to the hospital’s charity ward, and informed of the need for an operation, to which she readily agreed. After the […]
Case 5 : Pain Management
Case Study 5 :Pain Management Challenges A 46 y/o male patient was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer. To relieve the pain, the medical team administers increasing doses of morphine, but the members of the health care team express concern that this procedure would hasten death. Question Does giving increased dosages of painkillers meet ethical justification, […]
Case 3 : Confidentiality
Case Study 3 :Confidentiality Challenges With great surprise and resentment, a patient’s wife overhears two hospital staff members talking about her husband’s illness while riding a crowded elevator. Question What are some of the dimensions of confidentiality? Solutions Health care professionals must protect patients’ right to privacy. They should discuss a case, for the patient’s […]
