Question

Increasingly, large health facilities are asking health-care professionals to do more with less. Some are approached about becoming a specialist in a particular area with or without additional education. For example, a CMA may be asked to become an emergency room (ER) technician with specialized, in-house education. Or the same person may be asked to be a surgical technician with the appropriate education. What are the legal and ethical implications of such requests? Discuss.

Answer 1

The legal implications are an underqualified professional working in a specialty with the basic knowledge can put patient under risk of poor quality treatment.It can even lead to additional unnecessary investigation to rule out a disease condition than a specialist who can diagnose the same condition with very minimal or no test.Hence the providers can be sued legally and license can be suapended or revoked along with the organization which made them to do that can pay heavy fines and hospital can be sued for medical malpractice.

The ethical implications is there are shortage of healthcare professionals ,Hence when a patient arrives at healthcare a lack of staff or the particular specialist can sometimes cost the life so any healthcare providers can treat the patient and save the lives at least for time being.