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6 pages in length. As Health Administrator at County General Hospital, Jack Sinclair (not his real name) oversees a number of issues pertaining to the facilities daily operations, not the least of which includes policy and ethics. Sinclair worked his way up the ranks with a combination of insurance and medical backgrounds, having held positions as adjuster with one of the state's largest insurance companies and paramedic with the county. He was not originally focused upon the administrative end of medical work, but he quickly saw the need for modifying current policy where patient rights and treatment are concerned, particularly at County General. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ethics. Sinclair worked his way up the ranks with a combination of insurance and medical backgrounds, having held positions as adjuster with one of the states largest insurance companies
and paramedic with the county. He was not originally focused upon the administrative end of medical work, but he quickly saw the need for modifying current policy where patient
rights and treatment are concerned, particularly at County General. II. PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE Q. How has your county facility grappled with the growing debate over publicly funded treatment
for AIDS? A. The duties to treat people infected with AIDS are counterbalanced by the duties inherent to the rest of society who remain free of the disease.
The extent to which AIDS, its stigma and the complexities inherent to treatment dictates the duties to treat those with the disease is both grand and far-reaching; to merely state
an individual is within his or her rights to receive treatment speaks to a very small portion of the much bigger argument that involves ethics, economics, rights, attitudes and appropriate
choices. In the end, however, the health care industry upholds the moral obligation to provide and administer treatment despite whatever social and political outcry might exist from the opposition.
In the delivery of health care, the awareness of the bioethical "good" sets the moral tone in the thinking and behavior of nurses, doctors, patients, families, researchers, hospital administrators,
and social workers. These are the persons who are the moral agents in bioethics. They face the bioethical issues of our time and the quest for "good-ness" (Hartwell,
1990, p. 23). Q. Does personal responsibility intersect with a medical providers duty to treat? A. Whether the cause of a persons particular situation is the result of
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