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Hi! I was taking a quiz in my "Ethical and Legal Issues in the Professions" course when I came across this question.

Give an example of a right you have as a citizen that may conflict with your obligations as an employee? How would you recommend an employee might address the conflict?

To which I responded...

Say for example, I have a job at a desk in Manhattan. I may feel patriotic one day and wish to express my right to bear arms. I as a citizen have the right to bear arms, while this may conflict with my obligations as an employee due to my place of business having a strict "no weapons" policy. I would recommend an employee to address this conflict by NOT expressing my right to bear arms while being at work.

How stupid am I?

Hi! I was taking a quiz in my "Ethical and Legal Issues in the Professions" course when I came across this question.





To which I responded...

Say for example, I have a job at a desk in Manhattan. I may feel patriotic one day and wish to express my right to bear arms. I as a citizen have the right to bear arms, while this may conflict with my obligations as an employee due to my place of business having a strict "no weapons" policy. I would recommend an employee to address this conflict by NOT expressing my right to bear arms while being at work.

How stupid am I?

They encourage gun ownership in Texas.....:3

Wouldn't freedom of speech be a conflicting one since you can't exactly say whatever is on your mind to a customer?

Tempted to say "you're stupid" but why the heck you grab that one?

Tempted to say "you're stupid" but why the heck you grab that one?

Its been a long week and I have 3 hours until this is due. The teacher will not mind the answer because it fits the question, I just thought it comical at the time.


Here is another!

Describe a situation in which law and ethics may conflict in the healthcare field, providing an example of something that might be legal, but not ethical.

A situation where law and ethics conflict in the healthcare field can easily be described by a situation where a known criminal who has killed 10 adults and 6 children is lying in a hospital surgery room with a bullet wound. The legal decision would be to remove the bullet and patch up the wound so the man can attend trial and conviction. The ethical decision might be to let the man die as he "does not deserve to live due to his past actions."

[/FONT][/COLOR]A situation where law and ethics conflict in the healthcare field can easily be described by a situation where a known criminal who has killed 10 adults and 6 children is lying in a hospital surgery room with a bullet wound. The legal decision would be to remove the bullet and patch up the wound so the man can attend trial and conviction. The ethical decision might be to let the man die as he "does not deserve to live due to his past actions."

WHAT

Letting him die due to past transgressions is totally unethical. You'd get sued to high heaven and back if anyone ever found out you let a patient die because you thought he was better off dead. A medical ethics board would chew you to pieces.

What you're describing is not ethics, but morals. It would be a moral choice to say he's better off dead, but the choice would be highly unethical and would cost your job and likely land you in jail.

Something legal but not ethical would be denying the same man health insurance coverage, but secretly you did it because you despised his past actions. That would be legal, but not ethical.

Another legal but unethical situation would be treating your own family as a practitioner. It's legal to do so, but it's unethical since you cannot be objective and might favor your own family over other patients.