ASSIGNMENT : Ethical and Legal Responsibilities in Healthcare

Under what circumstances would a health care professional\’s legal responsibilities overlap with his or her ethical duties? Give examples.

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SAMPLE SOLUTION

Ethical and Legal Responsibilities in Healthcare
Abstract
Health care professionals have both a legal and ethical responsibility to protect the patients, which helps in the promotion of positive treatment outcomes. Ethical responsibilities involve doing what is right for the patient while legal obligations include operating in a way that abides by the legal requirements of a state or a country. Some of the circumstances where caregiver’s legal responsibilities overlap ethical duties include when applying evidence-based practice in healthcare, dealing with abortion cases, disease outbreak, and in the case of end of life care. Since ethical principles that control operations in healthcare cannot be modified, the legal principles can be manipulated to ensure that they coincide with the moral principles, which will eliminate the aspect of overlapping….