| خلاصه مقاله | Abstract
The principles of doing “good” and not doing “harm” are the essence of every code of medical ethics. Technologists have professional obligations to three groups: patients, colleagues and the profession, and society. A professional laboratory has a moral obligation to its patients and this encompasses the whole spectram from ensuring the origins of the sample, advising to the mode of collection and transport, the correct identification of the specimen to the final accuracy of the reporting, safe keeping and maintence of confidentiality of the reports. Medical Laboratory Science is a profession that cuts across a wide spectrum of healthcare on account of the vital role it plays on the health of the patient.
Medical laboratory professional has a duty to ensure that tests performed in the laboratory are of a high professional standard. The essential purpose is to ensure that patients trust in the medical profession is deserved. This is achieved by protecting patients and ensuring that they are able to obtain the maximum benefits available from medical ethics aim to protect patients from the abuse that can occcure when one person is in a position of power. Technologists are responsible for the performance of the majority of clinical laboratory tests that aid clinicians in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease. Their role requires in-depth knowledge of the subject together with scientific, technical and practical expertise.
Medical laboratory professionals are required to make decisions that could affect test result, diagnoses and medical treatment of patients. As a result, when confronted with ethical and unethical choices a moral dilemma arises. Decision making skills when such situation occurs have not been studied in laboratory professionals.
The pathology lab should be aware that no medical action or investigation can proceed without the patient’s consent.
Technical advancements and new methodology have new ways to investigate, archive and preserve human samples, so computer security and privacy are also subject to law and university policy. Traditionally, quality improvements were released by rearrangement of assets and resources through upgrading and retraining. Ethical problems in different phases of the examination process may occure: in pre-analycic phase, in the analycic phase and post-analycic phase.
Changes to improve the situation and ethical issues related to laboratory were often superficial and did not necessarily improve quality medical laboratory. Ethical issues have been given limited attention by professionals in laboratory medicine. More open discussion about ethics is necessary in our professional literature. |