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Professional Ethics in Health Care
NORTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH AND NURSING

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Title: Ethics Portfolio

Presented in partial fulfillment of the course:

MTCH200: professional Ethics in Health

Done by: Unknown

April 12, 2013

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Acknowledgement ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1
Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2
Summary of my experience ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3
Incidents of poor ethical conduct that were observed ------------------------------------------------------ 5 • Incident #1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 • Incident #2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 • Incident #3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Incidents of good ethical practices observed ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 • Incident #1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 • Incident #2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 • Incident #3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9
Incidents of ethical dilemmas faced by Dr. Edwards------------------------------------------------------- 10 • Incident #1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 • Incident #2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 • Incident #3
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