Ethical Health Care Issues Paper-Blood Transfusion

HCS/545

University of Phoenix

Ethical Health Care Issues

Introduction

There are many ethical health care issues that are currently affecting our society. One of the current healthcare issues that are affecting our society is blood transfusion, the ability to receive medical treatment. This issue affects our society because it enables patients to receive blood transfusions in many situations that can save lives. Many reasons behind blood transfusions are done for injury, major surgeries and related blood disorders. In this paper, we will discuss the importance of blood transfusion and reasons why it is a current ethical health care issue. The four major ethic principles will be used to evaluate and apply reasons to this issue.

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