Protecting your rights and welfare within a hostile health care system

Since PHCAs embody a new health care profession, it is vital that a professional code of ethics be set out.  We propose the following:           

            The PHCA Code of Ethics

1. We will always work to protect the rights and welfare of our clients within the health care system.

2. When engaged as PHCAs, we do not practice medicine, nor do we represent ourselves as practicing medicine.

3. We will avoid actual or apparent conflicts of interest; as PHCAs our clients are our only professional interest.

4. We will keep the content of all interactions with our clients strictly confidential.

5. We will work to see that our clients are fully informed at to their medical options, and that they are offered all medical services that are reasonably likely to benefit them.

6. We will not encourage false or miniscule hopes, nor nurture unreasonable demands, nor engage in deception on our client’s behalf.  We will not work to gain medical services for our clients that are highly unlikely to benefit them.

7. Our purpose is to strengthen, not weaken, our clients’ relationship with their physicians. We will always aim work with our client’s physicians, instead of against them, in assuring that our clients’ best interests are fully protected. 

8. We will charge rates that are within the grasp of the average working family, and will strive to make our services available to those who cannot afford to pay.

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