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What Is Health Care Ethics? Health care ethics (a/k/a medical ethics or bioethics), at its simplest, is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide us in making choices about medical care. At the core of health care ethics is our sense of right and wrong and our beliefs about rights we possess and duties we owe others. Thinking carefully about the ethical aspects of health care decisions helps us make choices that are right, good, fair and just.
Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine.As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology.ix of the values that commonly apply to medical ethics discussions are: 1  autonomy-the patient has the right to refuse or choose their treatment. ( 2 Voluntas aegroti suprema lex.). 3  beneficence-a practitioner should act in the best interest of the patient.