Hospital Administration contact program day 2 (part 1)
Posted in Business on 07/31/2007 10:28 pm by pratanu banerjeeContact Program Day 2
31/7/2007
Dr. P.S. Reddy
Hospital Administration
Beautifying the Mind —- Edward De Bono
Functions of Management:
PODSCROB (acronym denoting planning, organizing, directing, etc.)
Intensive care therapy is very expensive.
Hospital Laws and Medical Ethics
It is very important as on the basis of this a number of litigations are made for improper service in healthcare.
Legislative body makes the law.
National Laws: Indian Penal Code, Welfare Code, and Administrative Code.
Implied consent: A consent that is not told but is implied, say when a patient visits a doctor, the implied consent is the patient wants treatment, so tests are done by injecting syringes and blood taken, etc.
IPC sec. 90 —- Consent
IPC sec 88 —– Medicine
IPC sec 80 —- Accident in doing a lawful act
IPC sec 92 —–Act done in good faith for benefit without consent
IPC sec 320 —- grievous hurt
IPC sec 336 —– rash and negligent act endangering life
IPC sec 304 A —–Causing death by negligence
IPC sec 269 and 270 ——Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease.
Indian Medical council act 20 —– confidentiality
Break the bad news — it is difficult for a doctor to tell the bad news of the disease to the patient, say if he suffers from blood cancer or any thing like that.
The method is called SPIKE:
S—-Setting up
P —- Perception.
I — Information.
K —– Knowledge
E—- Empathy
Terry Schiavo Case
——She was a model who wanted to be slim. She wanted to be slim so she vomited food after eating called bulimia (a form of eating disorder).
—–Teenager with bulimia
——Potassium (K+) deficiency —it lead to cardiac arrest.
——Anorexic brain damage in 1990
——Removal of feeding tube.
——She died on March 31, 2005 due to dehydration.
Mary and Jodie
—-they are conjoined twins
——Mary uses Jodie as life support machine
——Separation might kill Mary as Jodie uses some organs of Mary to survive.
——continuation will kiss both.