{"id":17911,"date":"2012-10-04T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T17:15:09","slug":"look-out-ethics-in-healthcare-has-entered-business-oriented-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/10\/look-out-ethics-in-healthcare-has-entered-business-oriented-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out: ethics in healthcare has entered business-oriented territory."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should a physician do if a hospital administrator directs an action contrary to the doctor\u2019s ethics? What if a healthcare provider is told to speed up patient care or instructed to let cost determine treatment?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince medicine is a business, business ethics play a significant role in healthcare,\u201d said Jaime Franco, who teaches business ethics in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU).<\/p>\n<p>Franco was part of a lively, in-depth \u201cThe Business of Medicine\u201d panel discussion on August 24, 2012 at FIU, an event organized by Michael Gillespie, director of FIU\u2019s Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment. The panelists tackled tough questions about care, compensation and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Franco defined ethics as \u201cprinciples, norms and standards of conduct governing an individual or group,\u201d and values as \u201cwhat guides us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told audience members that \u201cAn individual should pre-determine his or her values, actually write them down, so he or she knows how to react when a situation arises, to give voice to their values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on the panel, from FIU\u2019s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine were Fernando Valverde, associate dean for community and clinical affairs, and former Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte-Ros, academic director for professional development. Former news anchor Ileana Varela, now in public relations for the medical school, moderated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17918\" style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17918 size-full\" title=\"Michael Gillespie, Fernando Valverde and Ana Viamonte-Ros\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Panel.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Gillespie, Fernando Valverde and Ana Viamonte-Ros\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Gillespie, Fernando Valverde and Ana Viamonte-Ros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Valverde spoke about the role doctors might be able to play in an arena in which \u201cpolicy is being dictated by the large players, but we have a voice in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Audience involvement adds to interest. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The panelists quickly got the audience&#8212;a group of 60 medical students, faculty, professors and people from outside the university&#8212;involved in the discussion. Attendees included John Rock, founding dean of the medical school and Eneida Roldan, former president and CEO of the Jackson Health System in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable in the audience was Pedro \u201cJoe\u201d Greer, assistant dean of academic affairs, and chair of the medical school\u2019s department of humanities, health and society; a MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d; and a recent recipient of the Congressional Medal of Freedom, the country\u2019s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should a physician do if a hospital administrator directs an action contrary to the doctor\u2019s ethics? What if a healthcare provider is told to speed up patient care or instructed to let cost determine treatment? \u201cSince medicine is a business, business ethics play a significant role in healthcare,\u201d said Jaime Franco, who teaches business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":19996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1220],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29575,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/29575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}