Editing Bioethics (section)

== Medical ethics ==
Medical ethics is a utilized department of ethics that analyzes the exercise of clinical medicinal drug and associated scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values. These values consist of the appreciation for autonomy, beneficence, and justice.

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Ethics affects medical decisions made by healthcare providers and patients.<ref name=":1"/> [[Medical ethics]] is the study of [[moral value]]s and judgments as they apply to [[medicine]]. The four main moral commitments are respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Using these four principles and thinking about what the physicians' specific concern is for their scope of practice can help physicians make moral decisions.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gillon R | title = Medical ethics: four principles plus attention to scope | journal = The BMJ | volume = 309 | issue = 6948 | pages = 184–188 | date = July 1994 | pmid = 8044100 | pmc = 2540719 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.309.6948.184 }}</ref> As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology.

Medical ethics tends to be understood narrowly as applied professional ethics; whereas bioethics has a more expansive application, touching upon the [[philosophy of science]] and issues of [[biotechnology]]. The two fields often overlap, and the distinction is more so a matter of style than professional consensus. Medical ethics shares many principles with other branches of [[healthcare]] ethics, such as [[nursing ethics]]. A bioethicist assists the health care and research community in examining moral issues involved in our understanding of life and death, and resolving ethical dilemmas in medicine and science. Examples of this would be the topic of equality in medicine, the intersection of cultural practices and medical care, ethical distribution of healthcare resources in pandemics,{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Bioethics committees and public engagement}}</ref> and issues of [[bioterrorism]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Horne LC | title = Medical Need, Equality, and Uncertainty | journal = Bioethics | volume = 30 | issue = 8 | pages = 588–96 | date = October 2016 | pmid = 27196999 | doi = 10.1111/bioe.12257 | s2cid = 23682804 | url = https://philpapers.org/rec/HORMNE }}</ref>

Medical ethical concerns frequently touch on matters of life and death. Patient rights, informed consent, confidentiality, competency, advance directives, carelessness, and many other topics are highlighted as serious health concerns.

The proper actions to take in light of all the circumstances are what ethics is all about. It discusses the difference between what is proper and wrong at a certain moment and a particular society. Medical ethics is concerned with the duties that doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers have to patients, society, and other health professionals.

The health profession has a set of ethical standards that are relevant to various organizations of health workers and medical facilities. Ethics are never stagnant and always relevant. What is seen as acceptable ethics now may not be so one hundred years ago. The hospital administrator is required to have a thorough awareness of their moral and legal obligations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Markose |first1=Aji |last2=Krishnan |first2=Ramesh |last3=Ramesh |first3=Maya |date=October 2016 |title=Medical ethics |journal=Journal of Pharmacy & Bioallied Sciences |volume=8 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S1–S4 |doi=10.4103/0975-7406.191934 |issn=0976-4879 |pmc=5074007 |pmid=27829735 |doi-access=free }}</ref>