Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where...

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Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where he oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name a few. He has managers in each department that he supervises and who work with him to address the needs of the various internal and external stakeholders of the hospital. Dr. DoRight discovers that some patients within the hospital have been dying as a result of a variety of illegal procedures by doctors and nurses, and negligent supervision and oversight on their part. This was brought to his attention in a few meetings and he told his Regional Director Compliance Manager and Executive Committee in January 2009. He was told by them that the matter would be investigated and they would report any findings to him as soon as possible. After two (2) years, there have been no results from the investigation and some patients are still passing away due to the negligent activities. He also answers to a board of trustees and interfaces with numerous community organizations and corporations who have various reasons for doing business with the hospital. Dr. DoRight continues to win awards for his leadership of the hospital and meeting business goals. He was recently named “Medical Business Executive of the Year” in 2011.
Write a seven (7) page paper in which you:

Determine at least three (3) different internal and external stakeholders that Dr. DoRight might have to deal with on a daily basis at the hospital.
Compare and contrast potential conflicts of interest that may exist between the internal and external stakeholders.
Discuss whether Dr. DoRight has fulfilled his ethical duty by reporting the illegal procedures.
Describe the deontology principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma that Dr. DoRight faces in this case.
Describe the utilitarianism principle and apply it to the ethical dilemma Dr. Do Right faces in this case.
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Introduction:
Dr DoRight has been appointed as a President in a reputed “Universal Human Care 
Hospital”, he is given responsibility to handle almost every department of the center and 
supervise heads and managers of each specified department. But in any Medical center the main 
concern is the health of your patients, ultimately that decides the credibility of your Hospital 
care. When Dr DoRight found about the wrong happenings in his Hospital, he was concerned 
and wanted to find out the exact reasons behind the dying rate of his patients. He thought either it 
could be illegal activities by Doctors and nurses or because of negligent behavior of his 
subordinates. He has also informed to his Regional Compliance manager and to a committee and 
they responded that investigations would be done to find out the exact reason behind these 
incidents.
 Internal and External Stakeholders: 
Stakeholders are the people who are directly or indirectly connected with your 
organization, they do have some interest if not much in the objectives of your firm. Here Dr 
DoRight handles many people who are inside or outside the organization and they have relation 
with the Medical center. Let us first talk about the stakeholders who are inside the firm and have 
a direct impact on the working of Hospital. First and very important people are the employees of 
the hospital that includes Staff Members, Doctors and the members of Board of Directors, also 
People who are directly linked with the hospital like Managers (Regional Managers), Executive 
committee and Trustee members. They have direct connection or in better words have direct 
impact on the Hospital. If any good or bad result comes out of any process then these are the 
ones who would be blamed or rewarded. Next come to the people who are indirectly connected 
with the firm and they do have indirect impact on the Hospital. These are referred as external 
stake holders that included Patients, Government and External Doctors who are asked to handle 
the process in specific cases. Suppliers of Medicines and other instruments are also external 
stakeholders because they provide aids required doing the medication of Patients and hence they 
do have an indirect impact.
Conflict of Interest: 
Conflict of Interest can occur when people’s and organization’s capacity to fulfill their 
duties to those for whom it seems threat of compromise and interference because of some 
external interests. You cannot decide just on the basis of what is at stake in conflicts of interest 
rather on behalf of those who are getting affected by those conflicts of interests. Here Internal 
stakeholders are the owners of the Hospital and trustees and other people and also Doctors and 
nurses if he complains against Doctors regarding the illegal activities being practiced by them or 
even if they are negligent towards their duties then it is affecting the business of the Hospital and 
also it takes resources and efforts to reestablish all those roles and duties. And on the other hand 
Patients are putting their lives in the hands of those unethical Doctors and there is no guarantee 
that they will be safe. 
The main aim of any person when he comes to the hospital is to be get cured and at the 
same time if the people who are serving them are not taking the duties seriously then it is 
impacting the life. This is a very critical issue.

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