This paper was prepared for HCM 510, Ethical Health Care Management, taught by Professor Browne.…
After reading the latest scenario that the Sandwich Blitz management team must ponder pertains to one of their restaurants not being with in a newly changed health code. The dumpsters are too close to the store which violates the new laws. The government official not only informed the restaurant manager that Sandwich Blitz was in violation of the law he also offered to overlook it for a price. This offer has put the management into an ethical dilemma.…
Quick & Reilly was a firm in trouble but with tremendous potential. Quick & Reilly was in urgent need of a CRM, for which Siebel was the best in the market.…
It was seemingly a normal quiet night on the day of March 12th 2011, until Virginia Rasnick attempted to phone her husband several times with no response. Sidney Rasnick, while on a work assignment in Jesup Georgia, checked into a motel on March 6th 2011. The hotel was owned by Krishna Hospitality INC. Throughout the work trip for all 6 days he was staying there, her husband had a schedule of always making several calls a day to her, and always one at night before he went to bed. So when he didn’t answer the phone that night she knew something was wrong. Her husband Sidney Rasnik, had a history of heart problems and she was growing more and more worried after calling five more times with no response. Desperate she asked one of the hotel operators that answered the phone to check on her husband. She stated that she was “very worried about her husband” and that he had been on medication. The man on the phone told her that he knew who he was and that he was resting and she was disturbing him. She tried to argue this claim but he hung up. She ended up calling the hotel 8 more times, asking for…
At the time of this court case, Sean G. Duffy was a hearing-impaired inmate at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, Washington. On July 23, 1992, Duffy was charged with indecent exposure by a corrections officer and placed into segregation following the incident. The next day, a notice of a hearing and infraction was attempted to be served, however, Duffy refused to accept it until an interpreter was able to be located. On July 28, 1992, WSR’s Disciplinary Court Clerk Peggy Williams, who knew some sign language, arranged a meeting between herself and Duffy. Duffy refused yet again claiming that Williams was not certified by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and that his ability to communicate with her was not…
December 28th 2013 at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, Andrew Anderson was shot and killed. The suspect behind the gun was Amanda jo Lucero. These two just so happen to be my cousins. Amanda jo and Andrew grew up together, they were practically brother and sister. My aunty beck raised the two and treatee Amanda like her own. You can imagine how hard it was for my aunty beck to hear her son was gone but hurt her even more to hear Amanda was responsible for Andrews death.…
Moral dilemmas are often met as one tries to take decisions in critical situations. The confusion arises as the manager has to balance the equilibrium among all stakeholders and simultaneously keeping the financial state of the company healthy. Such a critical case is that of the Ebola disease in Africa. With more than 2100 infections and 1100 deaths, this phenomenon has now turned into the most archived Ebola episode. (Rid and Emanuel 2014). The Australian Pharmaceutical Corporation has developed a vaccine to cure the disease but Australian Laws demand a trial of 10 years before its use. In order to decide whether to send the vaccine or not, the three ethical decision making model will be applied. The main model that will be used is the Utilitarian model.…
1. Billy is a voluntary patient and can leave the ward at any time. He has attempted to commit suicide more than once. He is deathly afraid of his mother and authority figures. I think that Billy has Anxiety disorder as well as social phobia. I do not think that Billy should be in the ward, he would do better at a rehabilitation facility. The ward is for insane or criminally insane and Billy does not belong there.…
Born August 12th, 1856, James Buchanan Brady was raised in a poor working class section of New York City with very little money to his family's name. James Brady grew up working as a bellhop in his father's dingy saloon , with little food to eat, hunger was not an uncommon feeling in the Brady household. Brady resented his father as a child and did not agree with who his father welcomed in the saloon and the business they did together. Brady soon ran away, and within a few years he found his first real job as a equipment salesman for the New York Central Railroad Company. The life of a salesman suited Brady very well and would start his outstanding career as a charming, and ostentatious businessman.…
He hopes that he will make a fair decision in regards to the sentencing of the husband.…
The desire and need for a code of ethics in public health came out of growing recognition of the inadequacies of medical ethics for guiding public health decisions (Kanekar & Bitto, 2012). There was an absence of an explicit set of ethical guidelines for organizations that dealt with public health to follow. During the annual APHA meeting in 2000; the PHLS Ethics Work Group, comprised of the Public Health Leadership Society (PHLS), along with local and state public health professionals, public health academia, representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Public Health Association (APHA) were encouraged to come together and initiate the process of writing a code of ethics for public health (Thomas,…
Samarin should blow the whistle on his employer now because the ethical issue intensity has spiked. Unlike the company’s earlier fraudulent actions, the new evidence affects him in a very direct way, increasing how important and relevant this ethical issue is to him. Samarin thought to himself, “We’re not covered… If I had fallen and broke my neck while changing light bulbs… I would have been finished.” Now that Samarin knows he is not insured in the case of a workplace accident this an immediate concern…
Dicken, B. M. (2005) The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics. American Journal of Public Health. 95 (7), p1094.…
Ethics and moral obligations are issues we all encounter at one time or another. In the professional setting, all people should act in a manner that would uphold the good of society. To be ethical, one has to determine their obligations, moral ideas, and moral philosophy (Boatright, p. 19, 2009). The case analysis involving Jacob Franklin was a perfect example of how an individual can face the dilemma of doing what is right or wrong. Businesses have their own code of ethics, and the employees within the business have to determine whether or not they will follow the company’s code of conduct. I will discuss several ethical issues in the case analysis including; failure to report information, remaining silent regarding faulty equipment, and paying cash as a form of consideration to clients once the contract was signed. Ethical behavior in business is consistent with the principles, norms and standards of business practices agreed upon by society (Boatright, p.4, 2009). Jacob Franklin decides to go against the code of ethical behavior for job security and personal gain.…
Gallagher, C. (2009, September). Ethics and Healthcare: Every Choice Has a Consequence. New Perspectives, 28(3), 39-41. Retrieved from http://www.ahia.org/audit_library/newperspectivesarchive/new_perspectives/2009/Summer2009/EthicsandHealthcare_EveryChoiceHasaConsequencebyChuckGallagher.pdf…