Question: In your new EHR system, the software flags diagnoses that must be reported to the state's mandatory reporting list. Your physician (Dr. A) has been

In your new EHR system, the software flags diagnoses that must be reported to the state's mandatory reporting list. Your physician (Dr. A) has been treating a fellow physician (Dr. B). Dr. B's labwork has just come back positive for gonorrhea. Dr. A tells you that she will not report this to the state health agency and will not enter it into the medical record as a professional courtesy to Dr. B, but will just treat Dr. B with the antibiotic samples that the drug rep left at your practice. Dr. A also tells you that she will not charge Dr. B for the treatment, as this is part of professional courtesy, and so no record of claims or billing need to be created. Dr. A asks for your discretion and that you will just "treat this under the table".

1. What are you going to do?

2. How would you combine your ethics and morals of your character to be a SERVANT when seeking a solution to this challenge?

3. What are some of thepotential repercussions of your action or inaction?

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