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Essay Instructions: Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where he oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name a few. He has managers in each department that he supervises and who work with him to address the needs of the various internal and external stakeholders of the hospital. Dr. DoRight discovers that some patients within the hospital have been dying as a result of a variety of illegal procedures by doctors and nurses, and negligent supervision and oversight on their part. This was brought to his attention in a few meetings and he told his Regional Director Compliance Manager and Executive Committee in January 2009. He was told by them that the matter would be investigated and they would report any findings to him as soon as possible. After two (2) years, there have been no results from the investigation and some patients are still passing away due to the negligent activities. He also answers to a board of trustees and interfaces with numerous community organizations and corporations who have various reasons for doing business with the hospital. Dr. DoRight continues to win awards for his leadership of the hospital and meeting business goals. He was recently named “Medical Business Executive of the Year” in 2011.

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:

1.Determine at least three (3) different internal and external stakeholders that Dr. DoRight might have to deal with on a daily basis at the hospital. Discuss the duty of loyalty owed to each internal and external stakeholder.
2.Compare and contrast potential conflicts of interest that may exist between duties of loyalty owed to an internal stakeholder vs. an external stakeholder.
3.Determine whether Dr. DoRight has fulfilled his ethical duty by reporting the illegal procedures. Recommend additional steps Dr. DoRight should have taken to prevent further harm to current and future patients and reduce liability for his employer, the Universal Human Care Hospital.
4.Describe the deontology principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma that Dr. DoRight faces in this case.
5.Describe the utilitarianism principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma Dr. Do Right faces in this case.

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA

Essay Instructions: Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the ?Universal Human Care Hospital?, where he
oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He
has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business
development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name a few. He has
managers in each department that he supervises and who work with him to address the needs of the
various internal and external stakeholders of the hospital. Dr. DoRight discovers that some patients within
the hospital have been dying as a result of a variety of illegal procedures by doctors and nurses, and
negligent supervision and oversight on their part. This was brought to his attention in a few meetings and
he told his Regional Director Compliance Manager and Executive Committee in January 2009. He was
told by them that the matter would be investigated and they would report any findings to him as soon as
possible. After two (2) years, there have been no results from the investigation and some patients are still
passing away due to the negligent activities. He also answers to a board of trustees and interfaces with
numerous community organizations and corporations who have various reasons for doing business with
the hospital. Dr. DoRight continues to win awards for his leadership of the hospital and meeting business
goals. He was recently named ?Medical Business Executive of the Year? in 2011.
Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:
1. Determine at least three (3) different internal and external stakeholders that Dr. DoRight might
have to deal with on a daily basis at the hospital. Discuss the duty of loyalty owed to each internal
and external stakeholder.
2. Compare and contrast potential conflicts of interest that may exist between duties of loyalty owed
to an internal stakeholder vs. an external stakeholder.
3. Determine whether Dr. DoRight has fulfilled his ethical duty by reporting the illegal procedures.
Recommend additional steps Dr. DoRight should have taken to prevent further harm to current
and future patients and reduce liability for his employer, the Universal Human Care Hospital.
4. Describe the deontology principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma that Dr. DoRight faces in this
case.
5. Describe the utilitarianism principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma Dr. Do Right faces in this
case.

Essay Instructions: Introduction:



Many believe that business entities should have an ethical duty to be socially responsible, to work towards increasing its positive effects on society while decreasing its negative effects. Many organizations look for opportunities to be socially responsible while also creating shareholder wealth.

Given:
Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. They have recently closed a couple of stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city, reportedly because these two stores were consistently losing money. After years of requests from customers, all of their stores have started offering a very limited amount of health-conscience and organic products??"all of which were high margin items. When asked by the area’s food bank for donation of day-old products, management declined deciding instead to throw the food away, citing worries over lost revenues due to possible fraud and stealing by employees who might say they are donating the food.

Task:

Write a brief essay (suggested length of 2??"3 pages) in which you:

A. Evaluate Company Q’s current attitude toward social responsibility.

1. Recommend three areas that could be improved regarding the company’s attitude toward social responsibility.

B. If you choose to use outside sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

Essay Instructions: An analysis of the ethics and legal aspects of compelling physicians to treat infectious and communicable diseases in time of epidemics and/or bioterrorism. Do physicians have an ethical duty to treat that is inherent in the professional role of the physician? A discussion of the appropriate balancing of risk and benefit from the viewpoint of physician autonomy and the harm principle (individual, society). Would allowing physicians to refuse to treat patients affect the the moral fabric of society?