Ethics for Health Care Provider Term Paper

The ethical dilemma will then be solved rationally by taking steps to serve as many people as possible, both to build awareness for the healing powers of the practice, and therefore grow my business and to serve those in greatest need.

It is for this reason that the only way that I can see to further both goals is to develop a system of sliding scale payment for those in need, without the means to pay for care all at once and also to offer my services, for five to ten hours per week as a volunteer at a local clinic that provides care to the underserved people in my community. In so doing I will be both building awareness for the power of the art in the medical community and seeking to better serve the whole of the community in which I live. The health of the whole community is therefore aided by my actions.

Placing greater emphasis on need as apposed to payment should be paramount in all helping professions, regardless of the personal cost, yet the health of my practice must also be taking into consideration, to ensure that I can continue to develop as a practitioner and that my practice can continue to grow and thrive to serve. It is for this reason that I cannot provide free care all the time, as much as I would like to be able to, but I can do my part in providing such care on a limited basis that will be fruitful in more than a single way. I can help both the underserved populations by following these two practices as well as grow awareness for the need of such care to balance the individual and make his or her life and community better for it.