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Healthcare Dilemma Towards Gift Giving by Patients
Gift giving is generally well-intentioned and graciously accepted to healthcare professionals but it is also one of the concerns that cause an ethical dilemma in health care. Is the gift giving ethically appropriate? Tangible guidance about how healthcare professionals would respond to gift giving i...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8793965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35115896 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.5.14 |
Sumario: | Gift giving is generally well-intentioned and graciously accepted to healthcare professionals but it is also one of the concerns that cause an ethical dilemma in health care. Is the gift giving ethically appropriate? Tangible guidance about how healthcare professionals would respond to gift giving is possibly scarce and non-specific. In cases where there is an absence of hospital policy specifying how to treat patients’ gifts, healthcare professionals may need to reflect several factors when addressing the dilemmas. This factor includes a reflection on the implications of responding to the gifts. |
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