Review the current literature and select an ethical issue (a problem) in health care and the resolution to the issue.

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Review the current literature and select an ethical issue (a problem) in health care and the resolution to the issue. You will be posting two videos from both the supporting and opposing viewpoints.You must choose an original issue - if your issue is already chosen your instructor may ask you to choose again. Post early in the week to secure your chosen issue.

Include a brief summary of the resolution you will present, both in support and in opposition of the issue.

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Ethical Problem: Medical Error

Summary of the Chosen Issue
 Disclosing medical error is a problem of ethics that many






healthcare givers face.
It’s an ethical dilemma because of the consequences that
arise after disclosing medical error information.
Ethics constitutes an obligation to ensure that one does
not engage in activities that inflict pain or harm others.
Therefore, declining to share the medical error information
is an ethical issue because of the harm to patients.
Furthermore, healthcare givers might do this to protect,
their interests, for example, jeopardizing their career.
However, in doing they act an ethically because it causes
pain to patients.

Rationale For Supporting the Issue
 It is an ethical obligation for a medical practitioner to disclose

the medical information.
 It is hard to own mistakes, but there are immense consequences
that patients might experience.
 Some of the consequences of failing to disclose the information
might include disability (Straumanis, 2007), furthermore, there
is an ultimate death.

 Furthermore, disclosing the i...


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