Impact of Political Trends on Healthcare Justice

Ethical principles is related to the individual relationship between the healthcare provider and the ______

It is therefore imperative in all situations to provide all information necessary to make an informed choice about courses of action available to them Principle of Justice Justice speaks to equity and ______ in treatment.

Ethical practice today must therefore extend beyond individuals to the institutional and ______ realms!

Distributive Justice: this addresses the degree to which health care services are distributed ______ throughout society.

Within this logic, similar cases should be treated ______!

How can it be determined that cases are indeed ______?

Therapeutic Privilege is invoked when the healthcare team makes the decision to withhold information believed to be detrimental to the ______

Fidelity is loyalty and speaks to the special relationship developed between patients and their healthcare ______

At the root of fidelity is the importance of keeping a promise and being true to your ______

Some are able to justify the importance of the promise at almost any ______

If a provider promises to always be there for care, yet leaves and joins another ______, the patient may feel betrayed

WCPT: Ethical Responsibilities of PTs & WCPT MEMBERS To be printed from ______ website

Introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme by the Obasanjo regime has impacted healthcare funding in the country, though more still needed to be done for a better impact on the ______

The Obamacare or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 in the USA was an attempt to decrease disparities in healthcare ______

All these factors place greater stress on an already overburdened healthcare system (in USA) and result in more difficult ethical decisions about workforce allocation and equitable distribution of ______

Veracity (Truthfulness) is not a foundational bioethical principle and is granted just a passing mention in most ethics text. It has at its core, respect for all persons by being truthful. Veracity is the opposite of the concept of paternalism, which assumes patients need to know only what their healthcare provider chooses to ______

There has however been a dramatic change in attitudes towards veracity because it forms the basis for the autonomy expected by patients today. Informed consent is only possible if patients have been well informed of options, which then allows them to exercise autonomy with full ______

Decisions about withholding information involve a conflict between veracity and ______