Question

Describe a situation with ethical implications that s health care or public health leader might face.

Answer 1

Health care leaders facing ethical implication on euthanasia issue nowadays:

Generally in assisted suicide or euthanasia the healthcare professionals at various levels (clinical level or management level or both) will face ethical issues at healthcare institutions. In healthcare ethical issues dealing are not uncommon. For taking each and every ethical decision can make an ethical implications and this kind of decisions can affect patients, healthcare leaders and providers. It is because the life is a precious gift given by God with gratitude. So we should give vale and take concern about every possible way to enhance. But in the process of assisted suicide before exhausting a person making every preventive effort is always inevitable. We should make it legally possible for the compassionate to show clemency to the dying who request intervention to end their suffering.

Euthanasia is ethical if the patient is under suggesting and requests for it. The statement of the suffering person is important as he/she is the one who is suffering the hardships. It is unfair to make the individual suffer for the sake of the family. There are often arguments made against utilitarianism that highlights that the basis of this approach would allow any innocent person to die for the sake of happiness to others. However, the argument against Utilitarianism fails to notice that the consideration of Euthanasia involves the approval and request of terminally ill person. If the suffering is unbearable then the patient is undergoing immense suffering on an everyday basis; the terminally ill person would rather prefer death to end it. The challenges of a terminally ill person include enormous suffering and depression with no hope for life. Euthanasia is hastened death which takes away the pain of the person without violating their rights. The main motive of a healthcare professional, and therefore a primary ethical issue, is that of promoting patient welfare in all concerns, or beneficence. The physician basic role and moral integrity defines the professional integrity.

Reference:

American Medical Association. The Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Medical Society of the State of New York articulates a similar position in "Physician-Assisted Suicide," New York State Journal of Medicine 92 (1992): 391.