ETHICS IN HEALTHCARE
In society, each profession has a role, position and influence important to the development
of the country, especially requiring “professional ethics”, conscience and responsibility of the
profession. The medical profession is a profession-specific, noble, directly related to the life and
health of humans. The people who works in healthcare must approach, requiring skill, reflexes,
and professional ethics is higher than other professions, which society called ethics. In the world,
it is said that the father of medicine refers to Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician, who lived
nearly 2,500 years ago, but his ideas and knowledge remain valid. In particular, he taught the
medical profession that the ethics, which the teachings later his successors have written a career
oath that all doctors graduated from the university must declare. That is the “Hippocrates oath”. In
this oath, it said “If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and
art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear
falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.”
Ethics form the basic foundation of different values from a different culture. Ethics has
been applied in the health care system since ancient Egypt. A physician has a moral duty to his or
her patients based on the relationship of the physician – the patient. Ethical principles of security
confirmed that patients can trust the service provider of your health care does not disclose any
information that patients can be made to be treated. Some current ethical issues in research relating
to the consent of the participants of the importance of human first. Subject and his guardian must
be able to understand the problem being addressed and the possible risks of treatment in the trial.
We need to do more to ensure that the practice of medical research with sound and ethical, and
research objectives should be secondary to the welfare of the participants.
Moral or ethical behavior is the basis for which humanity represents a compatible
existence. To live an ethical life and to distinguish right from wrong, are universal issues that must
be identified and applied. The ‘ethics’ means different to different people and based on ethical
principles, philosophy and religion of the society in which it is practiced. Is ethics involved in
health care management? or morally an important contribution to make in this area is the usual
question asked in biomedical ethics. Ethical standards must be followed in systems of health care,
biomedical research, public health, science and technology.
When people talk about ethics in healthcare, they may be speaking about a variety of topics,
including bioethics, professional ethics, and business or organization ethics. Depending on the
context, this book will address each of these different aspects of ethics in the healthcare field.
Sometimes the term “ethics” is used to refer to the moral quandaries of bioethics, such as defining
