An Upgrade In Ethics

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An Upgrade In Ethics

An ethics Upgrade
By
Ben Fehsenfeld
HCM381
Spring 2000
The resurgence of ethics has been a striking phenomenon in the past decade. Although ethics has always had a role in the healthcare field, only in recent years has it become a subject of intense interest and controversy. In addition to others, this interest has affected a variety of other fields as well, in particular, philosophy, religion, social sciences, and law. Ethics are more than just high quality morals. Using ethical knowledge, attitude, skills, and habits require intellect, and finesse to properly apply them in the professional organizational life. Reasons for increased societal focus on ethics in organizations are many. Insider trading on Wall Street; defense contract scandals, involving private and public sectors; rental car repair overcharges; and resignation of over 100 Reagan administration officials have helped to keep ethical issues in the public eye. What I want to do in this presentation to give you all some valuable information to stimulate your own ethical aspects that you may already have and to upgrade your present ethical intentions.
The problem that I would like to focus on here is the current ethical dimension that seems to be present in most of the professional organizations. It seems to me that there are those health care managers that do not even want to think ethically or that they just have a greedy streak that runs through them. Alternatively, there are those that just have a low ethical intensity. To me this reminds me of an issue-contingency matter where there is simply a lack of information on ethical aspects being flowed in their direction. On the other hand, they are simply ignoring, as if wearing blinders, the high standards that they now need to implement into their professional life. Ignoring ethical thinking will only hurt you or your company in the end. If you or someone you know is found to have been unethical in the past, the way people remember that inadequacy- just because it was unethical, it’s almost like they are criminals or pure violators. They seem like violators to their peers simply because the standards and the criteria of ethics are being upgraded in society.
Healthcare professionals exercise considerable influence and power over the lives of patients, subordinates, and colleagues- often in routine and subtle ways. Executives can set the schedule that favors some and not others ... double-check procedures or not check the...

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