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Ethical and Legal Challenges Facing Current Healthcare

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Introduction

Provision of satisfactory healthcare in the US today has faced social economical and legal challenges . Health care providers and practitioners have to deal with ethical issues patients ' rights and wishes . Healthcare provision is influenced by non medical factors like the patient 's hopes , beliefs and values . For a long time now , questions have been raised over what is ethical and

what is not ethical in the healthcare industry with most questions remaining unanswered up to date . However there has been a common thought that ethics should take precedence over anything else in the provision of healthcare . One of the most contested debates concerns how much healthcare resources should be spent on patients ' whose survival has been compromised due to critical sicknesses . This has also been referred to as `medical futility ' or healthcare that is unlikely to produce noteworthy results for the patient . Some legal clauses in the healthcare industry are also debatable . For example an individual may be deprived of the right to make health related decisions if the doctor proves to a court of law that his health condition has deteriorated to the extent of compromising his ability to make sound decisions . More often than not , in the process of providing healthcare to patients several issues requiring the intervention of a court , risk manager or an ethicist may come up Sometimes managing...