Warning: All of this makes me very, very angry, because I've already heard each of these points.
1) The class is bioethics, and there's usually/supposed to be an ethics board in each hospital or equivalent medical center that both comes up with the standards of care and the staff support for ethical issues.
2) I'm training towards interfaith chaplain, for healthcare and justice settings. I'm taking THAT class, because the chaplains are usually expected to have a representative on the board of ethics and to advocate pursuing justice, not profit.
3) Nursing and other care level staff members were already getting so badly treated by other patients in the cardiac ICU in August 2017, I was apologizing for even what I was overhearing and trying not to "bother" the staff even with my care after the open heart surgery. It's only gotten worse, and I can be remote spiritual support for the staff now, not patients yet.
Our local healthcare crisis isn't directly COVID, but the closing of four different hospitals in the area. People are being kept in one of the open hospitals' ER, until a bed opens up. We have very high standards for medical professionals, and then abuse them with profit being centered and not patient outcomes. All the medical professionals are human too, and do no harm also is supposed to apply to the other staff too.
This one is hard, and not just because of the current conditions.
Is the patient's unease, and yes often expressed disgust for other people affecting the patient's judgement and therefore any consent for medical treatment?
Does a Holocaust survivor psychologist have to treat a neo-Nazi? No, but the ER psychologist has a responsibility to find someone who can treat them.
Right now, I'm better at asking the questions, than at having any answers.
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1) The class is bioethics, and there's usually/supposed to be an ethics board in each hospital or equivalent medical center that both comes up with the standards of care and the staff support for ethical issues.
2) I'm training towards interfaith chaplain, for healthcare and justice settings. I'm taking THAT class, because the chaplains are usually expected to have a representative on the board of ethics and to advocate pursuing justice, not profit.
3) Nursing and other care level staff members were already getting so badly treated by other patients in the cardiac ICU in August 2017, I was apologizing for even what I was overhearing and trying not to "bother" the staff even with my care after the open heart surgery. It's only gotten worse, and I can be remote spiritual support for the staff now, not patients yet.
Our local healthcare crisis isn't directly COVID, but the closing of four different hospitals in the area. People are being kept in one of the open hospitals' ER, until a bed opens up. We have very high standards for medical professionals, and then abuse them with profit being centered and not patient outcomes. All the medical professionals are human too, and do no harm also is supposed to apply to the other staff too.
This one is hard, and not just because of the current conditions.
Is the patient's unease, and yes often expressed disgust for other people affecting the patient's judgement and therefore any consent for medical treatment?
Does a Holocaust survivor psychologist have to treat a neo-Nazi? No, but the ER psychologist has a responsibility to find someone who can treat them.
Right now, I'm better at asking the questions, than at having any answers.