Ethical problems may also arise when breaching confidentiality is required to protect a third party at risk. Performing actions which hasten death remains illegal. We will also contrast the recommendations of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Dr. Timothy Quill, each of whom holds that physician assisted suicide is permissible in some instances. We will discuss the epidemiology, transmission, prognosis and treatment of HIV disease. Ethical issues include reluctance to treat persons with HIV, testing, warning third parties at risk, confidentiality, and the role of political activism.
Communication skills are important as staff talk with the families of recently deceased persons.
There are also special concerns about obtaining informed consent from living donors, especially when the donors are children. A role play exercise will be used to explore communication issues between staff who are concerned with procuring organs and families grieving their recent loss. Screening for the genetic markers of disease is becoming more prevalent. Week 14 Research ethics and experimental therapies. Health care providers who undertake research have obligations both to the well-being of their patients and to the scientific integrity of their data collection.