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Texas State > College of Health Professions > School of Health Administration > Research > Publications > Jim Summers

Jim Summers

The following list of articles was written for a column titled "Ethics" in the Journal of Healthcare Materiel Management. They are listed in alphabetical order.

A call for judgment (PDF, 187.5 KB)

A changing landscape (PDF, 202.1 KB)

A duty to report patient care mistakes? Changing roles for healthcare managers (PDF, 320.5 KB)

A moral obligation to standardize? (PDF, 333.0 KB)

An ethical case study (PDF, 162.6 KB)

Asset disposal: Follow company policies or follow the law? (PDF, 286.3 KB)

"At-will" termination & the right to keep a job (PDF, 332.5 KB)

Bidding for a pharmacy distributor (PDF, 198.6 KB)

Bidding for a pharmacy distributor: Part II (PDF, 199.4 KB)

Business espionage: A trend coming to healthcare? (PDF, 194.0 KB)

"Cherry picking" among the group purchasing organizations (PDF, 345.0 KB)

Clinicians & managers: Different ethical approaches to honoring commitments (PDF, 258.5 KB)

Contract management of materiel management: Ethical issues (PDF, 998.2 KB)

Determining your duties (PDF, 310.2 KB)

Discovering falsified reports (PDF, 179.6 KB)

Dying patients: Ethical issues & management perspectives (PDF, 197.4 KB)

Employee layoffs (PDF, 191.3 KB)

Endoscopes & equality (PDF, 312.2 KB)

Ethical issues & GPOs: How far have we advanced? (PDF, 301.9 KB)

Ethical issues in intelligence gathering (PDF, 292.3 KB)

Ethical issues in job applications (PDF, 237.6 KB)

Ethical theories: An introduction (PDF, 251.2 KB)

Gratuities (PDF, 676.6 KB)

Group purchasing organizations: How are their members obligated (PDF, 406.4 KB)

Healthcare reform: Beginning the ethical debate (PDF, 306.8 KB)

Healthcare reform and the common good (PDF, 356.6 KB)

It might be legal, but is it ethical? (PDF, 90.1 KB)

Loyalty & ethical obligation: A report from the field (PDF, 205.2 KB)

Loyalty, whistle-blowing and confidentiality (PDF, 328.0 KB)

Loyalty, whistle-blowing and confidentiality: Part II (PDF, 212.4 KB)

Loyalty, whistle-blowing and confidentiality: Part III (PDF, 400.5 KB)

Management issues in an AIDS era (PDF, 355.0 KB)

Managers face conflicting values (PDF, 247.0 KB)

Overindulgence & cost containment (PDF, 310.2 KB)

Paying late, not paying the penalty (PDF, 111.5 KB)

Professional ethics in material management and its impact on marketing (PDF, 701.9 KB)

Public bidding: How does it obligate us? (PDF, 220.4 KB)

Reneging on committed volume contracts (PDF, 223.7 KB)

Sexual harassment: Join me in the quagmire (PDF, 281.5 KB)

Shades of Faust: When a memeber cheats the GPO (PDF, 214.9 KB)

Substitutions & rebates: Questionable materiel management practices in HMOs? (PDF, 215.8 KB)

Taking early payment discounts late (PDF, 617.6 KB)

The Patient Self-Determination Act & the JCAHO Patient Rights Standards (PDF, 277.5 KB)

What can you learn from mission statements? (PDF, 190.9 KB)

Who should decide the rationing of health care? (PDF, 398.2 KB)