CODE OF ETHICS
- Guide to the everyday conduct of individuals
- If it were a Professional Code of Ethics, it is a guide for the behavior or professionals.
Duty Discussion
1. I shall accept the responsibilities inherent to
being a professional;
2. I shall uphold the law and shall not engage in
illegal work nor cooperate with anyone so engaged
3. I shall avoid associating or being identified with
any enterprise of questionable character
4. I shall work and act in a strict spirit of fairness to
employer, clients, contractors, employees and in a
spirit of personal helpfulness and fraternity toward
other members of the profession
5. I shall use only honorable means of competition
for professional employment or services and shall
refrain from unfairly injuring, directly or indirectly,
the professional reputation, projects or business of
a fellow medical technologist.
6. I shall accept employment from more than one
employer only when there is no conflict of interest
7. I shall perform professional work in a manner that
merits full confidence and trust carried out with
absolute reliability, accuracy, fairness and honesty
8. I shall review the professional work of other
medical technologists, when requested, fairly and in
confidence whether they are subordinates or
employees, authors of proposals for grants or
contracts, authors of technical papers or other
publications or involved in litigation
9. I shall advance the profession
by exchanging general information and experience
with fellow medical technologists and other
professionals and by contributing to the work
of professional organizations
10. I shall restrict my praises, criticisms, views and
opinions within constructive limits and shall not use
the knowledge I know for selfish ends
11. I shall treat any information I acquired about
individuals in the course of my work as strictly
confidential, and may be divulged only to
authorized persons or entities or with consent of
the individual when necessary
12. I shall report any infractions of these principles
of professional conduct to the authorities
responsible of enforcement of applicable laws
or regulations, or to the Ethics Committee of the
Philippine Association of Medical Technologists as
may be appropriate.
To these principles, I hereby subscribe and pledge to conduct myself at all times in a manner
befitting the dignity of my profession.
Ethics:
• Rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group or
culture
Morality
• Principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct. While morals also prescribe dos and
don'ts, morality is ultimately a personal compass of right and wrong.
Likewise, one could violate Ethical Principles “Make it fit” based on his beliefs.
within a given system of rules, in order to
maintain Moral Integrity.
(Eg, skit about confidentiality)
Acceptability Ethics are governed by professional and legal Transcend cultural norms.
guidelines within a particular time and place.
What may be the norm of the
society, may not be moral to an
individual.
Divisions of Ethics:
1. Health ethics
- Ethics for health professionals
2. Professional Ethics
- Ethics that relate to professional ethics
- More general, relate to other professions
3. Bioethics
- Relate to human life
- Ethics of life sciences and healthcare, both delivery and research
- Broader in scope: when we talk about health ethics, preservation of the patient’s life. Life is the
core of bioethics.
Health ethics is somewhere in between bioethics and professional ethics, combination of the two ethical
principles
The Human person is the subject of healthcare delivery, not the human being. As a person, he has dignity
that must be respected. As a rational creature, he can and should freely choose what is best for him.
As healthcare professionals, we must care for human persons in a scientific and humane way. To be able to
do this, we must understand the meaning of personhood.
Essence of personhood:
3 criteria:
A. Biologically
*** Persons differ from animals in the possession of superior intelligence and free will, whether free will is:
a. Underdeveloped
b. Frustrated