Scenario: You are a new physician in a family group practice and you are in a meeting with the
owner of the practice. In this orientation, he stresses that all patient lab work is to be referred to
BioLabs Inc. When you ask the office manager about this, she says, “Oh yes, Dr. Smithfire (the
owner) is 50% owner in BioLabs, so we keep the business in the family".
The ethical question is to:
Decide if this practice is ethical or not ethical? You will defend your answer based on the assigned
ethics theorist (Kant's ethical theory).