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4. You have recently assumed office as administrator for SEFWI-WIASO DISTRICT HOSPITAL. At the monthly management meeting your medical superintendent was complaining bitterly about how unfair the Patient's Charter is. He bemoans the fact that it only concerns itself with patient right issues without a word about patient responsibilities. He then remembered that as a graduate of the Department of Public Administration and Health Service Management, you received guidance on these matters and therefore may have a better understanding of what the contents of the Ghana's Patient's Charter are. Explain why your medical superintendent's viewpoint is inaccurate and provide five (5) examples each of patient right and patient responsibility issues as contained in the Charter. (25 Marks).
3. Briefly explain the following terms a. i. Ethics ii. Morality iii. Healthcare ethics (9 Marks) b. i. What is the theory of moral/cultural relativism? (5 Marks) ii. Give three (3) reasons why the theory of moral/ cultural relativism is flawed. (6 Marks) c. List two characteristics of an ethical expert. (5 Marks)
2. During the COVID-19 pandemic one of the central controversies that characterised Government's enhanced contact tracing, testing, isolation and treatment policy was the issue of patient confidentiality and medical privacy. a. What are the duty-based and consequences-based justifications for the existence of a duty of confidence between doctors and patients? (10 Marks) b. Medical confidentiality and privacy, as we observed, are not absolute ethico-legal principles. Give five (5) important exceptions to the duty of medical confidentiality and privacy. (15 Marks)
5. Kindly write short notes on any three (3) of the following approaches to ethical decision-making a. Utilitarianism b. Kantianism c. Principlism (The Four Principles) d. Communitarianism e. Virtue Ethics