Health Care Ethics 2
When meeting with the General Counsel of you hospital, which question(s) should you
ask? (select all that apply)
a) Can we legally give the requesting hospital what they're asking for?
b) Do we need to protect ourselves in any way?
c) Should we inquire as to how long the patient can live without this cancer drug?
d) What obligation do we have to the requesting hospital's patients? - ✔️✔️a) Can we
legally give the requesting hospital what they're asking for?
b) Do we need to protect ourselves in any way?
d) What obligation do we have to the requesting hospital's patients?
As procurement manager of a large hospital, you stockpiled a popular cancer drug that
was going to be discontinued. Another hospital ran out of the same drug and has a
cancer patient in the middle of treatment. You will need to consider important issues,
including? (Select all that apply)
a) The good of the individual vs. the community.
b) The name of the patient in the other hospital and his family circumstances.
c) Humanitarian aspects
d) Future needs of your hospital. - ✔️✔️a) The good of the individual vs. the
community.
c) Humanitarian aspects
d) Future needs of your hospital.
When evaluating the ethical decision of whether to give the other hospital the cancer
drug, what issues do you need to analyze? (Select all that apply)
a) PR for the hospital.
b) The future cost of the medicine.
c) The other hospital's reputation and how this exchange might affect that reputation.
d) Whether or substitutes are available. - ✔️✔️a) PR for the hospital.
b) The future cost of the medicine.
d) Whether or substitutes are available.
When the rival hospital first calls to inquire about using some of your stockpiled cancer
drug, and the procurement officer states he wishes he had have stockpiled the drug,
what should be your first response?
a) Our physicians prescribe Remissadrone almost exclusively when treating certain
caners, and they're all starting to struggle to find a replacement treatment.