As administrator it is not only obligatory but also crucial that I am aware of each of these distinctions as well as the legal and ethical minutia in each punctilio of my job. This is due to the fact that I have a responsible job in a supremely complicated and responsible field which impacts human life in so many intimate, life-involving matters. Biomedicine can literally create as well as destruct lives. I am in charge of seeing that the workers under my supervision optimally fulfill their tasks. To do so well, they have to do so within the jurisdiction of legal conventions and ethical standards. I, therefore, have to be supremely in the know of all of these details and keep myself engage in current research on contemporary relevant debate and discussion and on all matters connected with biomedicine.
¶ … clinical, ethical and legal aspects of biomedical decision-making ( with an example of case related to healthcare clinical, ethical and legal issue involved and as an admistrator what is my standpoint?
Biomedicine involves various facets. To be a successful practitioner in this filed one needs to know not only the distinctions between each but also possess a basic knowledge of the principles of each. The three categories of biomedical decision making re the following:
The clinical field-
This involves the practical aspects of the field where the practitioner is actually involved in the business of biomedicine in a doctor / nurse -- patient capacity. Clinical work ranges from practitioners who engage themselves in understanding and working with molecular interactions to the study of the consequences of these molecular interactions at the in vivo level. Clinical practicum integrates biology and medicine and uses this research by devising new strategies for diagnosis and therapy . Practicum in biomedicine spans many careers which include working as immunologist, dental assistant, endocrinologist, medical doctor, physiologist, or nurse. They are all clinical and lab-focused.
Some clinical professions in this field integrate both research and lab and they include vocations such as research and lab work includes clinical laboratory technologist and technician, biomedical scientist and epidemiologist.
Decision-making in this field would be related to their job and would involve how to perform their job better. (Biomedical Sciences: Job Options, Duties and Requirements )
2. Ethical
This involves moral dilemmas that may infiltrate my field and that may force me to evaluate my choices and decide how to act. Biomedicine is one of these fields that challenge our ethics the greatest. Georgetown University describes the implications of this field in the following way:
From borrowed wombs and biopiracy, to organ harvesting, medical tourism, and generating new body parts, to stem cells, Viagra, imaging technologies, and life support, our lives are increasingly understood and lived as biomedical concerns.
Conundrums are presented in terms or race and age; in terms of age; in terms of privilege and lack thereof; between scientific and other treatments of the body; and, most of all, between issues of control and regulating this control. There are numerous other factors, and the ethics of biomedicine continues to be one of the most controversial and debated topics of this day.
Decision-making in this context would be structured to debating how to act within any one of a given set of biomedical circumstances.
3. Legal
This involves principles and laws that have been fashioned in regards to biomedicine in order to control and direct it. Fir each of the ethical principles sated above, laws exist to ascertain that medicine and sconce does not cross its boundaries. Aside from which, there are also laws about how to conduct research and experimentation on both human and animal subjects in an ethical, responsible manner. These are complex. Let us take just one such instance to instantiate how complex this is:
In 1997, the Council of Europe established the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine which dealt with developments in modern biology and medicine. The same council also established the Biomedicine Convention (2000), which was a framework treaty establishing certain universal principles relevant to biomedicine. At this moment, only three such Protocols have been opened for signature. Many are still in the making. These incude the basic concepts and leading principles of biomedicine; the provision of services; the rights of patients; research; human tissue and genetics; and the implementation of the Convention. (Gevers et al. 2005)
Other examples of principles of biomedicine that cross in international law include the following: Intellectual property implications (I.e. regarding invention); Use of embryonic stem cells and cloning; Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis; and Issues in HIV / AIDS. These are just some of the issues.
Biomedical decision-making in regards to the law presents us with numerous challenges that have universal impact and that have both EU conventions and national laws. (Biomedicine - Legal and Ethical Issues)
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