Ethical dilemma

by | Mar 10, 2022 | Project Management

 

 

Scenario:

You are working as a medical administrative assistant at a small clinic in a rural town where you grew up. You know almost all of the patients personally, as friends, family members, former coworkers, and former classmates. Because the clinic is so small, you are the main employee responsible for managing all medical documents in the facility. Consider these scenarios:

Mr. Jones, a close neighbor of yours, calls the clinic and asks you to print out a copy of his wife’s medical chart. He explains that he needs to bring a paper copy of her records to an appointment with her neurology specialist later that day. You tell Mr. Jones that his wife will need to sign a release form in order for you to provide him with the information in her medical chart. He replies that she is ill today and not well enough to come in and sign the document.

Jess, a 14-year-old patient, comes in for a well-child visit with her father. You show them to their exam room and let them know it may be 10-15 minutes until the physician is able to enter. A few minutes later, Jess approaches you at the reception desk and quietly asks if she can see the physician without her father in the room.

Mya Tanek and Ben Schuyler share custody of their two teenage children. You have known both Mya and Ben since attending high school together many years ago. Ben stops into the clinic to ask you about his son, Jayvin’s care. He wants to know when Jayvin’s next appointment is, why he was recently referred to a behavioral therapist, and if his medications have changed recently. Ben explains that Mya has been withholding information about their kids since their divorce a few years ago.

Instructions:

After considering the scenarios above, answer the following questions.

Scenario A

What are your legal obligations to Mrs. Jones in this scenario?

Identify the possible ethical dilemma(s) in this scenario.

Can you release the information to Mr. Jones without the signed form? Can Mrs. Jones provide permission over the phone?

What is the best solution to this situation?

Scenario B

What are your legal obligations to Jess in this scenario?

What are your legal obligations to Jess’s father?

Identify the possible ethical dilemma(s) in this scenario.

Can you ask Jess’s father to leave the room?

What is the best solution to this situation?

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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