Critical Analysis of Two Essays: Bus & Medicine Ethically
Are Business and Medicine Ethically IncompatibleIn the book Taking Sides authors Lisa Newton and Maureen Ford present in issue five the question "Are business and medicine ethically incompatible." Professor of medicine, Arnold S. Relman's essay Analysis of What Market Values are Doing in Medicine is used to present a case for 'yes' they are incompatible. Assistant Professor of business, Andrew C. Wicks' essay Analysis of Albert Schweitzer or Ivan Boesky? Why We Should Reject the Dichotomy Between Medicine and Business is used to present a case for 'no' they are not incompatible. I will analyze these two works, noting credibility, thesis statement, facts and opinions, problems and propaganda, and logical errors in each individually. The argument against incompatibility is very compelling; nonetheless, it fails to address the possibilities for misconduct that a medicine and business model posses. Without resolving these specific concerns, we must be cautious about buying into Mr. Wick's theory that they are not only compatible, but also similar. Analysis of Albert Schweitzer or Ivan Boesky?Why We Should Reject the Dichotomy Between Medicine and Business
Though both implications may hold true for some, they by no means hold true for enough to warrant this implications. Second, the poorest among us get full healthcare coverage through Department of Health and Social Services or Medicaid. The burden of proof shifts in several areas. " I have spent years participating and observing the labor, pains, and victories of hospital staff as they utilize Total Quality Management, Continuous Quality Improvement, Statistical Process Control and Health Tracks to maximize efficiencies and quality of care in our current healthcare market. " Though not a law, this declaration, written in 1957, clearly exhibits the ethically belief among peers that physicians should not receive financial gain in the field of medicine beyond that received through their own patient care services. Logical FallaciesThe statement "[i]f physicians are entrepreneurs and hospitals and healthcare facilities are businesses, then paying patients will get more care than they need and poor patients will get less" displays the logical error of absolutism and is not believable as stated. Recognizing that to some extent, this critical analysis of nine-year-old essay presents an unfair means of judgment and it's own type of logical error, I will nonetheless move forward with the analysis. The debate is not about whether or not businesses can make humane decisions, it is about who should make healthcare decisions or healthcare facility decisions, doctors or business persons; and can physicians be objective clinicians when they have personally vested interests in healthcare facilities and research programs. This either or thinking is evident by the absence of any alternative solutions. After acknowledging the need for renovation and reform the author moves on to refute the oppositions rejection of the business model by correcting misinterpreted terms. Wicks makes a very good argument for reconsidering how we frame medicine and business and how a combined moral code could be a more realistic and appropriate way to approach both fields individually and in combination. With this recognition we can begin to agree that combining ethics and self-interest is about rehabilitating our extreme views and adopt a new view or 'moral code' that makes trust, respect for others, decency and fair play central concepts that can and should be applied to both medicine and business individually and cooperatively. This argument is appealing but naive and foolish.
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