Medical Care

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This paper explains how safe health care involves the active involvement and participation of all players, including governmental authorities and patients. It stresses that safe health care is an important aspect of ensuring social justice through providing citizens the assurance that no stone will be left unturned in the attempt to restore ill people to leading a healthy, full, and rewarding lives. It examines ways in which this goal could be achieved and discusses the ramifications if total medical care is not provided for citizens.

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"Perhaps the single biggest blessing that any individual can thank his or her stars for is a sense of physiological and psychological well being that allows for the optimal utilization of one's lifetime. In the same vein, all humankind can perhaps also thank and bless the significant advances made by the medical sciences, which has resulted in the ability to cure many an illness and overall increase the average life span of humanity. Indeed, modern day humanity has only to look at its own history to truly understand the import of medical knowledge and aid. And it is precisely for this reason that it becomes hard to comprehend the fact that there still exists many lacunae in health care that is tantamount to the worst kind of social injustice. Take for instance, the shocking statistic that more deaths can be attributed to medical errors than car accidents or victims of AIDS. Not surprising, then, that there has been a great deal of attention in the recent past to the repercussions caused by preventable errors in the health care system. As a result of such attention, there is wide agreement that there is an urgent need to come up with effective solutions that will achieve a zero level tolerance. One such solution that has been suggested by many scholars and health care practitioners is the setting up of a safety culture akin to that of other high-risk industries such as aviation and nuclear enterprises."

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