Medical Law and Professional Ethics in Bangladesh: Challenges and Implications
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Medical ethics is a part of applied ethics studying the moral judgments and values related to medicine. The understanding of moral values is considered as ethics. Medical ethics is the moral values that should monitor the followers of the medical profession in terms of their practice of medicine and engaged with their patients and other associates of the profession. This study examines the ethical and professionalism issues that may arise in the context of medical practice in Bangladesh and the challenges this pose for medical regulatory bodies in Bangladesh, in upholding ethics in professional practice. A rectangle of the source of the problems giving rise tothe breach of ethics in medical practice is identified, and prompt steps, supported moral principles and thought, is projected towards the resolution of the issues conferred.
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