Discussion post Medical ethics and law
Question1
As the world becomes culturally diverse, it brings with many implications. This means our workplaces and societies will become diverse in terms of race, ethnicity groups, religions or gender. As a result, people are likely to interact with individuals with different practices, values, traditions, or beliefs. All these aspects are likely to affect my health care professional in many ways. I will now be required to rapidly adopt proactive and direct approaches to addressing the needs of a growing multiracial and multicultural consumer population and workforce, including the need to possess cultural and linguistic competence.
Question 2
There are cultural biases in healthcare, although in most case they come up unconsciously due to the prior exposure of medical experts to cultural stereotypes. This depicts that even though health care experts may have intentions of executing healthcare equality, they may have intrinsic blind spots that may make challenging to manage their unconscious bias. Meaning, care providers are likely to recognize information that reinforces their prior beliefs, and disregard information that does not strengthen those beliefs.
Question 3
The barriers that I foresee emerge from language differences and varying ways of communication. These barriers can be significant causes of delayed services to clients and conflicts between the client and the healthcare provider. This will negatively impact the client diagnoses and lower the freedom among diverse clients of seeking health care practices. Besides, the perception that all clients should be treated equally may be a significant barrier to understanding and accepting the necessity to developing more programs and services that are culturally relevant and specific to ethnic groups with different beliefs, values and norms.
Question 4
Regents v. Bakke case is the case remembered for its impacts on affirmative action that transformed how other colleges perceived race and equality concerning admissions.