TRUTH-TELLING,CULTURAL CONCERN,ONLINE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN MEDICAL ETHICS

1. DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY
SUBJECT: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS
TOPICS:
 Cultural concerns
 Truth telling
 Online business practices
 Control resolution
Submitted by,
Binuja.S.S
3rd semester M.Pharm
Department of Pharmacetical chemistry

2. CULTURAL CONCERNS

3.  Rule or expectation in any culture that prevents someone,
from outside of that culture, from being included or
participating equally.
 Language, behaviour, customs, values and beliefs that a
particular culture, race or country holds.
 Language and Religion

4. How to remove…
 Do the work of learning for patient’s behavior/culture.
 Acknowledge the difference between patient need and
medical preference.
 Learn about different cultures.

5. TRUTH-TELLING

6.  Avoidance of lying, deception, misrepresentation, and
non-disclosure in interactions with patients or relevant to
patient care.

7. Why it is important?
 Being honest with patients about their diagnoses .
 Forthright about medical errors.
 Primary physician and observing members
 Obligation to report errors

8.  Ethical to withhold information.
 Upholding patient autonomy.
 Patient and physician to plan the logistics of breaking
possible bad news
 Mentally unstable patient
 Patient possesses appropriate psychiatric backup.

9. ONLINE BUSINESS PRACTICES

10.  Research which utilizes the internet to collect information
through an online tool and studies about how people use
the internet, e.g., through collecting data and/or examining
any online environments; and/or, uses of online datasets,
databases, or repositories.

11.  Being mobile-friendly is key
 Directly connect a patient to the provider
 Millennials do everything online —appointment booking.
 Online medical centre
 Collection of health-care providers from one community
grouped together into one website.
 Plastic surgery, medical equipment, dental, family
practitioners and home-care providers.

12. CONTROL RESOLUTION
To ensure that appropriate ethical values are being applied within
hospitals, effective hospital accreditation requires that ethical considerations are
taken into account, for example with respect to physician integrity, conflicts of
interest, research ethics and organ transplantation ethics.

13. RESOLUTION STRATEGY
 Sets out the key elements of the proposed approach to
resolution.
 Scope
 Conditions for entry into resolution
 Activation of the operational resolution plan
 Funding arrangements

14.  Key options resolving the failing firm
 Protects critical functions, government funds and systemic
stability
 Achieves relevant resolution objectives.

15. REFERENCE
 Research methodology and biostatistics- Dr.Vinod kumar, page
no: 196-201.
 Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Research- Suzanne Batten and
Anne Marshall. Research gate
 Medical errors: Moral and ethical considerations -Wilfred
Bonney , Journal of Hospital Administration, 2014, Vol.3,No.2.