Journal Review: Ethics in Practice

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In a career that revolves completely around an individual, the patient, and their best interest, what should one do when faced with a situation between making an ethical and completely honest decision and one that “compromises the truth in service to what may be the greater good”? In the article, The Heat is On (Nancy R Kirsch, 2013), Tara, a physical therapist at Metropolitan General Hospital, is challenged with such a scenario. In the following, details of Tara’s situation will be described, a few principles of the Code of Ethics for the Physical Therapist which may offer guidance for Tara will be given, as well as what I think Tara should do, or what I would do if I were in a similar situation.
Tara is working with 83-year-old widower, Chester Davenport, who is scheduled to be released later in the day. Mr. Davenport is a positive man with not so positive living conditions. The bathroom in his apartment is too small to accommodate his walker, which is why Tara has been working with him; they have been working on cane safety. He lives on the third floor of a building that has no el...

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