Medical Ethics a challenge in the 21 century

A committee should be formed to evaluate the points raised by both sides, and a conclusion developed to stipulate the relevant ethical practices that should be adopted in medical field. Introduction Medical ethics are universally accepted and should be strictly adhered to in the medical field. Patients seeking medical attention in any hospital should be treated and managed based on ethics that have been accepted internationally (Zerwekh & Garneau, 2014). These ethics are being discussed even today in social and print media, and have raised concerns about different views of people. Additionally, there are non-ethical activities and practices that happen in health care systems, and they include stem-cell research, cloning research, development of babies using test tubes, facilitated suicide by medical practitioners, euthanasia, laboratory creation of monsters and many others.

Theories Two theories adopted in medical ethics and make crucial impact on the decisions we make include secular bioethics and Roman Catholic (Mahoney & Mahoney, 1993). These medical bioethics explain which ethical behavior should be adopted. They describe the type of ethics that are wrong and right, and compare conclusions concerning these ethics. They also explain the outcomes of each ethical decision made. Each ethical theory has a unique way of explaining everything happening in the field of healthcare and medicine. The theory of Roman Catholic explains that contraception, euthanasia, human cloning, research pertaining human embryo and fetus, human cross-breeding, and facilitating suicide are non-ethical, hence they should not be adopted in healthcare and medical arena (Eliot, 2016). However, brain death phenomenon is excluded from the above list.

I agree that Roman Catholic should disagree with secular bioethics because these activities are harmful to human life. The theories of Roman Catholic and secular bioethics support ventilator aid for treatment and high dose painkiller use for pain management where required (Mahoney & Mahoney, 1993). These considerations concerning ethics are done in rare cases where life is compromised. They discussed these and came up with one argument based on several theories. Additionally, one principle could be highly rated that the rest and therefore, these philosophers had to bring equality in all the principles. Committee such as this and many others should discuss the ethical practices happening in healthcare sector in the 21st century. The differences in Roman Catholic and secular bioethics theories should be handled by a qualified committee developed to specifically ague the points and review the current medical procedures and practices to ensure the required SOPs are conducted in healthcare institutions and hospitals.