Health care professionals

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1. Is there anything wrong with health care professionals being paid to provide information about their patients to marketers? Would it make an ethical difference if they received benefits for their hospitals or other patients rather than for themselves?

2. Is it ethically acceptable to make money from other peoples’ desire to have their children be as healthy as possible? Why, or why not?

3. Is there anything special about health care or could it be treated as a commodity like anything else that can be bought and sold in the market-place? Explain your reasoning.

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