Question

Evaluate the Itturalde Vs Hilo Medical Center case. Describe the ethical issues that led to the malpractice case and explain why the issues are credited with causing the incident. Describe an ethical theory that help resolve the issue and provide safe quality experience for the patient. Select a physician-patient shared decision-making model and explain how it will provide a safe quality healthcare experience. Propose ethical guidelines that would have helped prevent the incident.

Answer 1

Answer :

• Based on the case of itturalde v. Hilo medical center USA , Dr. Ricketson was required to to exercises a legal duty by performing in conformance to set professional standards .by acting professionally ,the doctor was not supposed to implement any decision that could cause harm to the health of the patient .however ,Dr. Ricketson failed to conform whether all the necessary equipment For the surgery were available in the operation room .this is regarded as one of the legal duties of surgeon before conducting any form of surgery .
• Dr . Ricketson's conduct reveals negligence upon the patient by acting in a manner that deviates from the standards of care in the medical community
• It is believed that the negligence of Dr .ricketson is responsible For the death of his patient three years after the surgery .
• In addition to Dr .ricketson's negligence ,the non party hawali orthopaedics ,inc was also accused of negligence because of hiring Dr. Ricketson who they knew was not For For the job having been chased in two health facilities .such a case could not have occured if feldmeyer had alerted the hospital administration about Dr. Ricketson's code of conduct .this is in accordance with one of the various malpractice policies .
• It is a medical malpractice

Ethical theory :

Ethical theories can be seen as schools of thought when judging the rightness and wrong ness of a proposed action .

Deontology : it is an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves ,as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions .

In above question , these is a medical malpractice and effect is death of patient .

So the ethical theory justice is useful in this ethical issue .

Shared decision making is a let component of patient centered health care .it is a process in which clinicians and patient work together to make decisions and select tests ,treatments and care plans based on clinical evidence that balances Dhana and expected outcomes with patient preferences and values

Ethical guidelines :

• Beneficience and non maleficence
• Autonomy and consent .
• Truth telling
• Confidentiality .
• Preservation of life
• Justice

Doctors should follow ethical principles to avoid medical issues .