Bioethics

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DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICAL THEORY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

A SUBMITTED TO

[NAME OF TEACHER]

[DEPARTMENT]

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[CITY AND STATE OF SCHOOL]

[DATE]

Health professionals have the inherent duty to save lives of those who need medical attention . Much is expected from them in cases when the patient direly needs medical help because the primary assumption is that the hospital is an institution designed to alleviate the health burdens of the infirm or cure the sick . In medical situations involving exotic infectious diseases , health professionals

should have no reason to deny any patient suffering from such disease from being given the proper medical help . It is not right to say that a health professional can refuse to handle the case of the patient with an exotic infectious disease because of the possibility of contracting the disease Apparently , there will always be the risk of contracting any kind of disease in hospital facilities insofar as health professionals are concerned . However , that is the same reason why there are several preventive measures and hospital guidelines specifically designed to address the fear of contracting the diseases of the patients of the health professionals . To refuse a patient of medical help is unprofessional and is the least that one can expect from those who took the Hippocratic Oath upon becoming a health professional

There ought to be a policy which should directly address the situation where a health professional faces the task of treating a patient suffering from an exotic infectious disease...