Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19 (August 24th)
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Listen Now From an ethical perspective our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous. For example, as has been widely reported, our nation has failed to protect the most vulnerable among us, for example, nursing home residents have suffered approximately one-third of all COVID-19-related deaths. As for other disenfranchised, African Americans have been were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites to die of COVID-19 complications. Health care providers have been and continue to be inadequately protected requiring them to work in lethal environments. Instead of providing service workers, moreover minorities, health insurance, sick leave and a livable wage, we now define them “essential workers” and give them a hand clap. As for our the federal government's response, the president's sensitivity goes so far as his recently stating “it is what it is” - that the urban dictionary defines as a business phrase that can literally be translated as “fuck it.” As for the Congress's response, 75% of direct and indirect CARES Act moneys went to corporations and any forthcoming or additional federal response must include COVID-related legal immunity protection for the health care industry. The nation's response to the pandemic exposes the rift that continues to exist between medical ethics, that requires the health care industry to support the betterment of public health and a responsibility to seek policy reforms that are in the best interests of patients, and health care delivery ever-increasingly designed to generate financial profits.
Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19 (August 24th)
Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics…
Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19 (August 24th)
Listen Now From an ethical perspective our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous. For example, as has been widely reported, our nation has failed to protect the most vulnerable among us, for example, nursing home residents have suffered approximately one-third of all COVID-19-related deaths. As for other disenfranchised, African Americans have been were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites to die of COVID-19 complications. Health care providers have been and continue to be inadequately protected requiring them to work in lethal environments. Instead of providing service workers, moreover minorities, health insurance, sick leave and a livable wage, we now define them “essential workers” and give them a hand clap. As for our the federal government's response, the president's sensitivity goes so far as his recently stating “it is what it is” - that the urban dictionary defines as a business phrase that can literally be translated as “fuck it.” As for the Congress's response, 75% of direct and indirect CARES Act moneys went to corporations and any forthcoming or additional federal response must include COVID-related legal immunity protection for the health care industry. The nation's response to the pandemic exposes the rift that continues to exist between medical ethics, that requires the health care industry to support the betterment of public health and a responsibility to seek policy reforms that are in the best interests of patients, and health care delivery ever-increasingly designed to generate financial profits.