Ethical Case Study- Jerry McCall HCS/335 Ethical Case Study: Jerry McCall Jerry McCall is a Medical Assistant for Dr. Williams. One afternoon Jerry was covering the front office while the receptionist was out to lunch. He received a phone call from a patient who requested a refill for Valium. The patient had stated that he and Dr. Williams are personal friends and Dr. Williams always gives him “a small supply of Valium before he leaves on a trip” (Fremgen, 2009 p. 85). Jerry was the only
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Ethical and Criminal Responsibility (Week 2) Corris Macon LAW 531 Ethical and Criminal Responsibility (Week 2) Employers have a moral responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of their employees. When it comes to taking corrective or preventative action, and an employee poses a danger to others, any company or organization must do what is necessary in preventing something from happening. First, as the employer, there is what is called duty of responsible care. Not taking preventative
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penalties because of the exercise of such legal rights. The parties agree that they will not infringe or abridge the academic freedom of any member of the academic community. Academic members of the community are entitled, regardless of prescribed doctrine, to freedom in carrying out research and in publishing the results thereof, freedom of teaching and of discussion, freedom to criticize the university and the faculty association, and freedom from institutional censorship. Academic freedom does
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jurisprudence of common law”(en.wikipedia.org). 1. Explain whether Jake’s actions are in or out of “his scope of employment.” Scope of employment is defined in dictionary.law.com as an “actions of an employee which further the business of the employer and are not personal business, which becomes the test as to whether an employer is liable for damages due to such actions under the doctrine of respondent superior” and also as “all acts reasonably necessary or incident to the performance of work, including
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Ethics Case Study – Jerry McCall University of Phoenix Ethics Case Study In health care today, there is sometimes a lax attitude regarding rules and regulations. Some allied health professionals may be tempted to inappropriately use their position because of a personal feeling of empowerment. There are always ethical and legal issues that influence outcomes and this care is just another example of the difficulties that allied health professionals face every day. Jerry is trained as a
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of Australia’s social structure and analyse the companies listed above In order to understand the role of the Australian government on businesses is to understand how Australia was built. The doctrine of separation of power was inherited with the birth of the Federation of Australia in 1901. The doctrine split the institutions of government into three branches; legislative, executive and judicial. This is a way to prevent a corruption, internal abuse of power and conflict of interest of people in
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1. In this case, Joseph F. Yania went to discuss a business matter with John E. Bigan. Both Mr. Yania and Mr. Bigan operated separate coal strip-mining operations. While Mr. Yania was at the property, Mr. Bigan asked him to assist in starting a pump in order to drain water from one of the cut trenches. While standing at the top of one of the cut’s walls, Mr. Yania jumped into the water and drowned. The widow of Mr. Yania attempted to bring suit against Mr. Bigan for her husband’s death. The
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strategically important market and Google couldn’t just ignore that. We begin our approach to philosophical ethics by describing what is called straw men. These approaches can be characterized as the Friedman doctrine, cultural relativism, the righteous moralist and the naive immoralist. The Friedman doctrine says that the only responsibility of business is to create profits, as long as the company remains within the rules of law. Yet this argument breaks down because the rules of the game are not well established
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'Modern liberals have abandoned individualism and embraced collectivism.' Discuss the question asks to Analyze how liberalism stemmed into abandoning the two core values of individualism and collectivism. In the essay that follows it will be assessed how modern liberals evolved from their classical core beliefs. Individualism, this is the most fundamental feature of liberalism. It is the unique feature that distinguishes it from the other ideologies. Classical liberals interpret it as an individual
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or not to extend an employment offer to a candidate with a degenerative progressive condition. The candidate’s physicians are unable to predict whether this condition will interfere with this candidate’s abilities in the near future or later in life. So the question becomes should we hire someone “who may or may not” be able to perform their duties? The second ethical consideration is allowing the uncertainty of the disability to affect the decision to extend an employment offer to this individual
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