Medical Ethics: Rights and Obligations

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles applying values to the practice in clinical medicine and scientific research. Based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. Bioethicists refers to the four basic principles of health care ethics when evaluating the merits, demerits and difficulties of medical procedures. Ideally speaking, for a medical practice in order to be considered ethical, its got to respect all four of these principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Issues in medical ethics often involve life and death of patients. Serious health issues are raised over rights of patient, informed consent, confidentiality and competence,The health profession has a set of ethics, that applies to various groups of health professionals and health-care institutions across the globe. Ethics is not static, applicable for all time periods. What considered as good ethics a hundred years ago might not be considered so today. The hospital administrator got an obligation to have a clear understanding of its legal and ethical responsibilities. Must be clear of their values.