Legal & Ethical Issues in Healthcare

Legal & Ethical Issues in Healthcare

This paper intends to explore some legal and ethical issue in healthcare in relation to a patient-provider interaction. In this context, an actual situation is analyzed, which is published online.

Patient-provider interaction is mutual and consensual. It involves numerous ethical and legal concerns. Healthcare providers who are not familiar with ethical and legal laws for interacting with patients are at a discrete drawback. Healthcare providers will have following advantages if they know ethical and legal rules in dealing with patients:

Offer superior care to patients;

Evade costly, time consuming, and unnecessary lawsuits; and

Evade costly ...