Question

After I treated a patient, his family sent me a new flat-screen TV as a present to show their gratitude I appreciate the thought, but I feel strange about

accepting such an expensive item. If all doctors took these kinds of gifts, wouldn't we have an incentive to treat rich and generous patients better than others? What is the ethical issue in this scenario?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Thus, there are some situations in which accepting gifts would be clearly unethical: if accepting a gift biases a social worker's judgment , the social workers would have to treat more of the rich and kind people better than poor and etc. It wouldnt be right if thats how hospitals were.