Topic #3 : Ethical PrinciplesLecture :6

Dr. Mohammad AlmermeshLecturer

Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy Department

Overview

Social Ethics (morally relevant)

nonmaleficence Beneficence

Maximizing total net benefits

Principles of

Overview

• The principle of justice (may be morally relevant), affirms that certain patterns of distribution of the good (e.g. distribution based on medical need)

• Other moral principles (Autonomy-Veracity- Fidelity- Avoidance of killing)

• Actions or practices that do not focus on maximizing the net good produced

• These are more individual ethical concerns • Are important in traditional clinical health care

ethics• Acting on one and only one patient (even one

patient)

Pharmacy Ethics Principles

Benefiting the Patient and Others

Autonomy

Veracity

Fidelity

Avoidancof Killing

Justice

Veracity

• Veracity (dealing honestly with patients)• Many common moral systems treat lying as wrong/ traditional

professional health care ethics has not• Hippocratic Oath does not require that physicians deal honestly with

patients/ they claim that it spares patient agony/ focusing on the consequences but not inherent moral element

• American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Code, 1969 “ a pharmacist “should strive to provide info to the pts. Regarding professional services truthfully, accurately, and fully and should avoid misleading patients regarding the nature, cost, or value of these professional services

• 1995 revised code” A pharmacist “acts with honesty and integrity in professional relationships.”/ its interpretation is “ A pharmacist has a duty to tell the truth and act with conviction of conscience”

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