Provide two specific real life case examples that you find on the internet or in the print media of impaired providers
Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare
Provide two specific real life case examples that you find on the internet or in the print media of impaired providers. Discuss with your colleagues the legal and ethical issues in handling and reporting [to whom] impaired health care providers. What constitutes impairment? What evidence must you have? What is ones liability for reporting and not reporting under a specific state law? What are health organizations potential liabilities? Have you ever experienced this issue? How did you handle it? [no names please] Should health organizations allow for rehabilitation of impaired providers? Why or why not? Provide citation of authority to support your initial response to conference questions.
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In any country, healthcare providers operate in an environment governed by various laws and regulations that must be followed to the later. There are various legal and ethical issues in this environment.
One of the issues is confidentiality whereby it is good that when a doctor I treating a certain patient he/she should maintain a high level of patient confidentiality. The patients information on the disease being treated should not at any time be released to the public. There is information that can be released and that which is forbidden from being released. Another issue is the relationship between the patients and….
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