PDF-(BOOS)-After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness

Medical error is a leading problem of health care in the United States Each year more patients die as a result of medical mistakes than are killed by motor vehicle accidents breast cancer or AIDSWhile most government and regulatory efforts are directed toward reducing and preventing errors the actions that should follow the injury or death of a patient are still hotly debated According to Nancy Berlinger conversations on patient safety are missing several important components religious voices traditions and modelsIn After Harm Berlinger draws on sources in theology ethics religion and culture to create a practical and comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of patients families and clinicians affected by medical error She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging fallibility telling the truth confronting feelings of guilt and shame and providing just compensation After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers. Module 2. Unit 1 Insights. Do No Harm. No statement of ethical standards can anticipate all situations that have ethical implications.. Therefore, overarching principles – like . “Do No Harm” should guide the behaviors of professionals in everyday practice.. Hank Puls, MD. Diane Plantz, MD. Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference. Case-Based Workshop. July 29. th. , 2016. Disclosures. We have no relevant financial relationships with the manufacturers of any commercial products and/or provider of commercial services discussed in the CME activity.. Learning Objectives. Examine and discuss beliefs about personal and professional ethics. Identify how your beliefs and values affect your daily decisions. Discuss NAMSS Ethics Policies and the NAMSS Code of Conduct. John D. Banja, PhD. Center For Ethics. Emory University. jbanja@emory.edu. 20/20 Special in 1982 on lethal anesthesia errors . Resulted in creation of Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation in 1985;. Pulse oximetry and electronic monitoring became standardized . Learning Objectives. Examine and discuss beliefs about personal and professional ethics. Identify how your beliefs and values affect your daily decisions. Discuss NAMSS Ethics Policies and the NAMSS Code of Conduct. Basic Biomedical Principles. Principle of Beneficence. Act to benefit others. Principle of Autonomy. Worth and dignity of all persons. Right to self-determination and moral obligation to protect others with impaired autonomy. Issues in Research Ethics. Coercion. $$$, extra credit, social pressures. Privacy. Deception. Physiology of cheating. Discomfort or Harm. Right to . Service. Experimental group gets beneficial treatment, control group does not.. Medical Assisting Simplified: Law and Ethics is the newest addition to the Medical Assisting Made Incredibly Easy series and the first law and ethics textbook tailored specifically to medical assisting students. A host character guides students through the material in an enjoyable, readable, and extremely practical manner that makes teaching and learning fun. Boxes with eye-catching icons provide practical advice about workplace scenarios and other topics. More than 140 illustrations enhance visual learning. ABHES and CAAHEP competencies covered in each chapter are listed. Each chapter ends with a ten-question quiz. N. Al-. Asadi. 2018-2019. Ethics and Morality. What are they?. The terms . ethics. and . morality. are often used interchangeably - indeed, they usually can mean the same thing, and in casual conversation there . Today\'s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of health care services for the sake of the patient\'s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange.Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient\'s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics. In this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1,500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, Carrick applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and surrogate motherhood. He discusses such timeless issues as the social status of the physician attitudes toward dying and death and the relationship of medicine to philosophy, religion, and popular mortality. Opinions of a wide range of ancient thinkers are consulted, including physicians, poets, philosophers, and patients. He also explores the puzzling question of Hippocrates\' identity, analyzing not only the Hippocratic Oath but also the Father of Medicine\'s lesser-known works. Accessible to both professionals and to those with little background in medical philosophy or ancient science, Carrick\'s book demonstrates that in the ancient world, as in our own postmodern age, physicians, philosophers, and patients embraced a diverse array of perspectives on the most fundamental questions of life and death. Medical error is a leading problem of health care in the United States. Each year, more patients die as a result of medical mistakes than are killed by motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.While most government and regulatory efforts are directed toward reducing and preventing errors, the actions that should follow the injury or death of a patient are still hotly debated. According to Nancy Berlinger, conversations on patient safety are missing several important components: religious voices, traditions, and models.In After Harm, Berlinger draws on sources in theology, ethics, religion, and culture to create a practical and comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of patients, families, and clinicians affected by medical error. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging fallibility, telling the truth, confronting feelings of guilt and shame, and providing just compensation. After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers. Batch 28. What Is Medical Ethics, and Why Is It Important?. Medical ethics involves examining a specific problem, usually a clinical case, and using values, facts, and logic to decide what the best course of action should be. . May 16, 2018. Introduction. A little about me:. Over 20 years in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Started as a medical device representative-in surgery every day M-F and then moved into the pharmaceutical industry.