Medical Error Disclosure: Ethical Dilemma

Despite the impressive breakthrough that medicine has witnessed over the 20^th–21^st centuries and especially in the past few decades (Gallagher et al. 1752), the possibility of a medical error remains a topical issue (Hannawa et al. 320). Coupled with the non-disclosure policies of a hospital, the issue, when revealed to a provider of the patient or any other person concerned, often poses a dilemma. Particularly, the need to warn the patient and the likelihood of legal repercussions, including a lawsuit (Ghalandarpoorattar et al. 2), which the patient is enabled to file because of the poor service quality, deserve to be brought up.Medical Error Disclosure: Ethical Dilemma

Justification

The topic in question was chosen due to the obvious conflict between the interests of the patient and the population, in general, which medical ethics supposedly protects, and the interests of the provider, who is threatened by legal ramifications in the case in point (Raemer et al. 3). In other words, the identified inconsistency between the rights of an individual and the concerns of the hospital staff needs to be addressed.