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Profits and Professions - Essays in Business and Professional Ethics (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
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Profits and Professions - Essays in Business and Professional Ethics (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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Suppose an accountant discovers evidence of shady practices while
ex amining the books of a client. What should he or she do?
Accountants have a professional obligation to respect the
confidentiality of their cli ents' accounts. But, as an ordinary
citizen, our accountant may feel that the authorities ought to be
informed. Suppose a physician discov ers that a patient, a bus
driver, has a weak heart. If the patient contin ues bus driving
even after being informed of the heart condition, should the
physician inform the driver's company? Respect for patient
confidentiality would say, no. But what if the driver should suffer
a heart attack while on duty, causing an accident in which people
are killed or seriously injured? Would the doctor bear some
responsibility for these consequences? Special obligations, such as
those of confidentiality, apply to any one in business or the
professions. These obligations articulate, at least in part, what
it is for someone to be, say, an accountant or a physician. Since
these obligations are special, they raise a real possibility of con
flict with the moral principles we usually accept outside of these
spe cial relationships in business and the professions. These
conflicts may become more accentuated for a professional who is
also a corporate employee-a corporate attorney, an engineer working
for a construction company, a nurse working as an employee of a
hospital."
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