2. -Learning outcomes
---Define ethics
---Identify the issues in surgical ethics
---Explain the boundaries of autonomy,
informed consent ,and confidentiality
---Describe the good surgical practices
3. Ethics
---The word ethics is derived from the Greek
word ethos which means character.
---To put it formally ethics is the branch of philosophy
that defines what is good for the individual and for
the society and establishes nature of obligation or
duties that people owe towards themselves on one
another and towards the society they live
4. -Surgical Ethics
-Ethics is an essential discipline in the practice of surgery
-Represent your best understanding of moral responsibility
-Evolves as reasoned reflection on clinical experience
-Ethical studies investigate what should be our character
and conduct
8. -CONFIDENTIALITY
---The principle of confidentiality is that the
information a patient reveals to practioner
is c when it can be disclosed to a third party
---Breaking confidentiality
---If the patient is threat to self or others
---Other team members (improving treatment
options
---Public interest
---Court order
9. -GOOD STANDAERD
---To optimize success in protecting life and
health to an acceptable standard
---Practitioner must offer specialized treatment
in which they have been properly trained