Students: post comments about how nurses & doctors & other health professionals ought to behave. Should they be held to higher moral standards than other people? Explain. Should doctors etc. take oaths before they practice? Which oaths, saying what? Why? Are there better and worse ways for health professionals to treat patients? Explain.
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I believe doctors and nurses should respect their patients wishes unless it goes agianst their moral standards. There are certain situations when there is a risk for harm to the patient or health professionals that restraining the patient is relevent even if it is taking away their right. A worse way for a health professional to treat their patient is to ignore the patient's wishes since it is convenient.
ReplyDeleteI think that above all the most important thing for a doctor to do is always treat patients with the respect and dignity they deserve. I'm fine with the Hippocratic Oath I think that the problems lies with the advancement of society in many ways that maybe it needs to be updated to some degree to fit the culture of today’s society.
ReplyDeleteI think that patients and doctors must both always see the other person first as a person, and then as a patient or doctor. The patient must consider when asking for something he/she really wants that the doctor is an autonomous human being with their own set of moral values and desires. A good doctor should desire to provide you the best medical care possible in your own best interest. But I think this desire should be tempered by the patient's own desires. The doctor also has to consider that the patinent is an autonomous person who has their own set of moral values and can make their own decisions as well. The patient most definitely has their own self-interest at heart,and it is the place of both the doctor and patient to communicate effectively and in a way that allows the two to reach a compromise which takes into account all aspects of the patient's well being (including physical, medical, spiritual, and psychological).
ReplyDeleteI really don't think there is an adequate "oath" out there for doctors and nurse's to be honest. There is nothing that will ever be able to be used and followed in every situation. Of all professions, these is probably the most situational.The only thing that I could say is to agree with Latonio and to respect all persons. It is ALSO difficult to say that, though because some people believe that respecting a person is guiding them through every step of the way and trying to get them to do something that may be right, even if they don't want to do it. Others may believe that it is respecting a person's autonomy and listening to what they have to say without trying to coerce them into anything.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly an autonomy v paternalism battle that cannot be fixed or addressed or condensed into one oath.
There is definitely a different set of moral standards that doctors and nurses should be held to in my opinion because their job is more of a life or death type job because they have to ability to directly end or extend someone's life. There really isn't a "proper" way that a doctor has to treat a patient just as long as he does the job that he is getting paid to do. The doctor could be complete jerk but if they are giving their patient proper health care honestly that is really all that matters.
ReplyDeleteI feel as long as physicians and nurses treat each of their patients how they would want to be treated if the roles were reversed and they were the patients then they should not have to take oaths before they practice. I think we would see physicians and nurses acting much more professionally if they thought about the care they give their patients like that.
ReplyDeleteNurses and doctors have an obligation when practicing medicine and patient care to put their morals aside and accept and care for all different kinds of people. It is important to understand where a person if from, their beliefs, etc. and educate them on what the best plan of care is for them.
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