Question

1) Define business ethics. How does it apply to healthcare? Is business ethics in healthcare more important than in other areas of enterprise?

2)What would be ethical issues you may need to overcome in order to implement your project? How does social justice apply to your implementation?

Answer 1

1) Business ethics are practices that are appropriate in all aspects, inside and outside the business organizations. Health care is very sensitive area to deal with. It has a lot of responsibilities because of the involvement of health of patients. In a way, it directly affects the lives of people. As a result business ethics in health care more important than other areas of enterprise. The management must be ethical with the records pertaining to the patient, it must not disclose the details of the patient as it violates the privacy of the patient. The management must be ethical in treating the patients, for example the priority must be the life of the patient and the monetary issues must be given second priority.

2)The ethical issues in a healthcare management that must be overcome are: the conflict between monetary issues and the treatment, details of the patient's information, optimum costs of medicines.

While it is true that to treat a patient, expensive equipment is required and this demands the need for money from the patient. But it is unethical to use this fee as tollgate for the treatment. It is not justified to make this kind of approach.

Patients' information is very important as it affects the private life. This information must not be divulged and it is socially injustice to leak such an information.

The medicines from the pharmacy department of the health care management must be ethical in such a way that it must not over price the medicines, this is a punishable offence as well socially.