Question

your opinion, what are the ethical issues regarding pharmaceutical marketing to physicians?

What are the four basic values that all health care providers should observe?

What are the four models identified by Veatch (1972) that apply to the doctor-patient relationship?

What are Institutional Review Boards and why are they important to healthcare ethic

Answer 1

1)

Drug companies impose marketing strategies on canvas physicians to prescribe their medicines to patients. Physicians end up in accepting gifts from these pharmaceutical companies. This way they may prescribe these medicines to the ones who don't need it and may consider their patients to a mere tools to sell all these drugs. This imposes a greater ethical issue in society. This drug promotion may influence the decision-making capacity of the physician, and it is a severe wound laid on the clinical relationship.

2)

The basic values that all health care providers to be observed are:-

• Autonomy, the right of the patient to decide what is his/her will to do with their body.
• The health care providers must do all which will benefit the body of the patient.
• No harm should be caused.
• Fairness in all decisions.

3)

The 4 models identified by Veatch that apply to the doctor-patient relationship are:-

1. Informative Model
2. Interpretive
3. Deliberative
4. paternalistic

4)

IRB is a certain type of committee. It takes the decision, by reviewing the method whether it is ethical or not. It is meant for safeguarding the human aspect from the conducted research and managing the risk. It is important to health care ethics as it is the most crucial body meant for looking at whether the risk is scientifically valid or not.