lectures in Health care ethics 1

1. Health Care Ethics 1
Dr. Tarek Abd-Elkader Sallam

2. Introduction
(A)Medical Profession Ethics and Regulations:
 Professional ethics: These are the guidelines
derived from the values and principles
concerned with the modalities of proper
conduct when practicing healthcare
profession.

3. Introduction
(A)Medical Profession Ethics and Regulations:
Professional regulations: These are the rules
and legislations that regulate the practice of
healthcare professionals. Break of these
regulations may lead to punitive acts which
consequently make them similar to the laws of
the states.

4. Introduction
(A)Medical Profession Ethics and Regulations:
Ethics
clarify what
ought to be
done
Regulations
determine
what should
be done
Regulations should be rooted and based on professional ethics

5. Introduction
(A)Medical Profession Ethics and Regulations:
Regulations
• Should be
rooted and
based on
Ethics

6. Healthcare practitioner
• Healthcare practitioner: is a qualified person
who directly provides or helps in providing
healthcare to patients, whether in the form of
diagnostic, curative, or rehabilitative services
that affect health condition. This includes
physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and
healthcare technicians. This also includes
psychologists, social workers, nutrition
specialists, paramedics, medical physicists, as
well as other healthcare practitioners.

7. Honor of the Healthcare Professions
• Soul, health and life preservation which is the
most precious
• So
• Entrusted with patients’ secrets and most
private matters

8. Honor of the Healthcare Professions
• 2. Thus, a healthcare practitioner should
strive to excel in his/her work and seek
perfection in performance while following the
noblest of manners that are gifted to those
who fulfill people’s needs, erase their pains,
and resolve their problems.

9. Honor of the Healthcare Professions
• 3. Of course, there are some characteristics
which need to be emphasized in order to
achieve this level of nobleness in the medical
and healthcare profession, among which is
practicing it with dedication and excellence.

10. Honor of the Healthcare Professions
• 4. Consequently, all healthcare practitioners
should consider the patient’s right through
their good behavior and attitude.

11. Sources of Healthcare Professional
Ethics
• Religions
• What people have agreed on
• Cultures.
• Scientific research, and the rules

12. (D) Role of Role-Models
• ethics do not pass on to the new generations
only through theories
• senior generations share life experiences and
practical situations with the younger
generation and become their role-models
• Inspiring good professional ethics by
becoming excellent role-models.

13. Chapter 1: Healthcare Practitioner
Ethics
• (A) Devotion
Each individual healthcare practitioner must
have devotion in all his/her actions for the sake
of Allah

14. (B) Demonstration of the Best of
Manners
• 1. Truthfulness
Not only about telling the truth, it is also about
truth of the intention, truth in the action and
performance

15. (B) Demonstration of the Best of
Manners
2. Honesty and Integrity
3. Humbleness and Respect for Others

16. (B) Demonstration of the Best of
Manners
4. Patience and Tolerance
• Deal with different types people >>>>>>>>>
• Excuse the annoyance of some >>>>>>>>>>>
• Do not confront the patients’ irritability with
anger vengeance or negligence

17. (B) Demonstration of the Best of
Manners
• 5. Passion and Love:
loving, passionate and merciful

18. (B) Demonstration of the Best of
Manners
• Moderation and Fairness:
• Fair and unbiased
• Based on their trust
• Don’t abuse this trust
• Give appropriate medical care in terms of
financial costs

19. (C) Self-accountability
• judge themselves before being judged by
avoiding: compliment ……………. etc.

20. (D) Avoidance of Trivialities and
Pettiness
• Indulge in affairs that are religiously offensive
or socially wrong
• Backbiting, talking too much, arguing,
laughing too much, or saying socially
unacceptable words
• Chewing gum while working, untidy
appearance, wearing strange and socially
unacceptable clothes