This book presents a series of cases concerning ethical issues in healthcare organizations.
Organizations now dominate the delivery of healthcare.
The physician-entrepreneur model of healthcare delivery that has been supported by the medical establishment through much of its history in the United States is being replaced. Thus, it is within an organizational setting that most healthcare delivery occurs. Yet there are few books that deal specifically with the ethical implications of organizational issues in healthcare, and there are few cases in casebooks that focus directly on the organizational aspects of healthcare ethics. This book remedies that situation. We start with the thesis that the use of case studies is the best pedagogical method to teach healthcare organization ethics.