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A 24 page paper that compares the ethical standards of reducing services in the health care industry to reducing services in the information technology industry. An introduction states the comparion may not be as easy as it would appear. Examples are provided to illustrate the point. The essay explains three theories of ethics and with the use of specific scenarios, demonstrates how the reduction in services in each industry might be ethical or unethical. The last section of the paper is an overview with more examples and comments suggesting a valid comparison can be made only case by case. Annotated bibliography lists 15 sources.
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File: MM12_PGeth4.rtf
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glance, this comparison seems like a no-brainer: how can you compare reducing health care to reducing information technology? A reduction in health care services can result in death. A literature
review does not even have to be conducted to draw this conclusion. It is a fact. However, consider these three scenarios: Setting: Mid-morning at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. Dr.
Guadagnino is at his computer terminal checking lab reports for a patient who is 82 years old and is suffering from congestive heart failure. The patient was admitted the day
before. The doctor clicks through one screen after another, reviewing the reports and finds the echocardiogram showed decreased function and both her thyroid and her kidneys are not functioning
properly. An ultrasound has been scheduled for this very morning. He shakes his head, thinking to himself, "this is going to be a problem" and goes to her room (Florian,
2003, p. 193). In the same medical center, Dr. Yacht is treating a patient for pneumonia. Before the doctor can even key in his request for the patient, a screen
pops up asking "Is this the correct patient?" The doctor clicks yes and then another screen pops up saying "The accepted antibiotic is Gatifloxacin." Before the doctor can order the
medication, yet another screen pops up and tells the doctor that he needs to take two sets of blood cultures and he needs to do a sputum study and the
screen asks the doctor is the patient is on any of a list of antiarrhythmics. The screen warns the doctor that if the patient is taking any of these other
medications, Gatifloxacin is the wrong medication because it can cause heart toxicity (Florian, 2003, p. 193). In a different setting, implementing bar code technology with wireless scanners prevented the
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