Ethics in Healthcare Administration

^{- Need it as part of your base for sucessful practice - Healthcare is always changing and challenging - Answers not always black and white - The community expects much from you}

^{St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Martin Buber Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Lawrence Kohlberg John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Victor Frankl (1905- John Rawls (1921-2002) 1907)}

^{Aquinas Kant Mill Rawls}

^{Buber Kohlberg Frankl}

^{- Natural Law - God is rational and created the world rationally - Humans can reason - Humans capable of choosng good over evil}

- That which preserves life and the human race - Advance truth - Allows people to live in community - Happiness is not to be found in worldly behaviors or values - Happiness and goodness in seeking wisdom

^{when man chooses to oppose God’s Will and sins, it is asthough a hole is made in a umbrella.This ‘hole’ allows or permits Satan to come in and execute his plans. Choosing evil is a choice and every choice has a consequence.}

^{- Prescription drugs and technology - Chronic disease - Aging of the population - Administrative costs}

^{The distinctively modern notion of rights is invoked to specify the most fundamental demands of the common good . . . . The duty to promote the common good, therefore, entails the duty to protect the human rights of all. Emphasis here is on the way individual persons benefit from the enhancement of the common good.}

^{yes - (CPR), (breathing machine), Antibiotics, Tube feeding, (DNR) order are all options on whether to extend your life to live or not to live}

- Deontology or duty-based ethics - Everything in society has relative value - Only true good will - All humans beings have worth - People are not just tools to archive societal or organization goals - Catergorical imperative

^{rules of conduct supposedly inherent in the relations between human beings and discoverable by reason; law based upon man's innate moral sense}

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)