Primary Care Paramedic (PCP) Ethics Assignment

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Primary Care Paramedic Ethics

The issue on the ethics on life in medical terms is a long to debate on , for one , it conflicts with morality , religion and the law Morality and religion speak the same language on the issue of life while the medical side tries to separate morality from the law . It is hard to separate the two considering there are things that have to be aptly considered (Brock 124

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the decision making of the paramedic practitioner in the out-of-the hospital environment ? Morals relate to the standards of the society , while the standards of ethics relate to the standards of the individual . Ethics , according to Haskeu (22 involves the construction of a personal code , it also implies a measure of self examination and reflection of one 's practice . That is why if there should be issues or questions that need to be answered , it must be answered on the basis of reason

There are three questions of ethical tests in health care , the first one is , What is it in the patient 's best interest ? Second , what does the patient want ? Third , what role does good faith play in making an ethical decision ? This aims to provide patient benefit , avoiding harm and respecting the patient 's autonomy . But the ultimate question for ethics is what makes human life valuable ? In particular , why is it more valuable than any other form ? How can we determine value ? There is no doubt in the essence or significance of the human being . Given the dilemma between a dog and man , we choose to save man because we think it is the right thing to do . I agree with Harris , who wrote The value of life ' when he said that there is no prejudice in the preference for human life , it is just that we know that it is the right thing to do But in the case of the choosing between two human beings , this is quite hard to decide upon , the predicament involved here are two supreme beings that is either bound to die or to live . Harris points out also that abortion (to some countries may be legal ) may be tolerable given that the mother would be free of harm and the fetus might be considered as less of the human adult . What is pointed out is that , adults in our society will be of value (in the wider sense of productivity ) than the fetus that 's why it is rational to choose the adult rather than the fetus . What makes the human life valuable are the features that both incline us and entitle us to value ourselves and one another and which license our belief that we are more valuable (and not just to ourselves ) than humans , fish or plants (Haskeu 8

We are looking for the basis of the belief that it is right to save the life of the...