Whistles and Mandatory Reporting
Assignment
Use the material from the assigned readings to defend your thesis on this topic: You will need 5 cites from the readings in your final paper.
Whistles and Mandatory Reporting Case Study
Defend a general policy concerning medical professionals, disclosure of risk, and client confidentiality. After you do that, apply that policy to the two examples, explaining which actions by professionals were morally right or wrong.
Support for the thesis will include a thesis about the degree to which the medical profession in general is morally obligated to uphold confidentiality, and whether legal requirements to disclose confidential information to prospective non-medical professionals are ever the morally right policy.
Consider whether mandatory reporting laws can make a professional complicit in an immoral practice. Based on these policies, explain whether Nurse Gannon and the emergency room doctor behaved ethically.
