ABSTRACT
Many situations in health care need problem-solving skills. Some are financial and relate
to waiting lists; others are management, security, food and nutrition, patient transport,
scheduling of appointments and operations, and the delivery of test results from the various
diagnostic units to the professionals. Consequently, there is no one way of making decisions
that would be applicable to all problems. However, if we recap or revisit what ethics in health
care is about, it is possible to identify how we can approach decision-making so that it is ethical.
First, we need to remember that ethics is not something that is separate from client or
