Essays on Medical Ethics

Part 1

Objective: in this critical analysis, you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of public health ethics and legal issues. Also, you are required to actively engage with the subject and come up with a substantial perspective on it.

Introduction

This critical analysis will outline the main purpose of the public health ethics and legal issues for protecting and upholding public health. Public policies and social programs are some of the aspects that constitute a good public health. Also, some patients with distinct issues contribute to the wellbeing of the public health, especially in a situation of unethical event regarding health ...

Physician-assisted suicide is a highly controversial topic which tends to polarize people’s views. Around the world, there is much debate in governments about laws regulating physician-assisted suicide, and several countries now allow the practice. There are many strong arguments on both side of the debate and taking all of these arguments into account is helpful when assessing the topic. Against this type of euthanasia, the slippery slope argument asserts that legalizing assisted suicide could lead to desensitization around killing, which could in turn lead to involuntary euthanasia being legalized. Perhaps the most important to a physician, the medical ...

Overview

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act guarantees the security of patients and confidentiality of their medical records. Healthcare centers have put in place digital methods of recording data, which is secured by encryption or by private access keys that are only known to healthcare providers to enhance security. Healthcare practitioners have appreciated medical privacy with patients taking legal actions against violation of their privacy and confidentiality. However, healthcare providers have experienced ethical dilemmas in various situations where they are torn between their code of ethics, overall welfare of patients and other concerns such as national security. Mary (a senior ...

Patient A, who has a diagnosis of dementia, will most likely be on the receiving end of the least amount of discrimination from those around her. It’s true that she will fall foul of the prejudice (though lack of empathy might be a better phrase than prejudice) which exists against the elderly, and she may also feel some pushback for her second marriage, particularly if it was due to some error on her own part, but otherwise, her life and previous career would bring her respect. Her diagnosis does not surprise me, because at eighty-eight, patient A is ...

In this essay I will dwell upon the issue of euthanasia. I will consider different views on this issue and discuss the contradictions that arise in relation to the use of euthanasia in different situations. I believe that passive euthanasia is possible and even desirable to alleviate the suffering of a terminally ill patient, when there is no hope to return the essential functions of his body, provided appropriate control over the lawfulness of the procedure implementation. Euthanasia is a conscious action, resulting in the death of a hopelessly ill and suffering person in a relatively quick and painless ...

Ethics are moral values which dictate character or behavior of an individual or group. It defends, recommends and systemizes the concept of doing right or wrong doings. Presently philosophers group ethical theories into metaethics, normative and applied ethics. The video demonstrates couples who faced a moral dilemma which they needed to solve together with the doctors on duty (The Daylen par. 1). The mother had given birth to premature twins. The pregnancy had been just twenty-six weeks. One of the boys had suffered hemorrhage in both brain hemispheres. He could not breathe and thus used artificial respiration. The doctors’ ...

Hippocratic Oath was written by Hippocrates and remains to be the oldest document that binds people in doing what is right particularly the physicians. Its objective is to protects the rights of the patients, by preserving their health as well as their privacy in the best way possible, and it is distinguished by words such as “I will” Hippocratic Oath is today used by graduating physicians so as to abide them by what they should do according to their profession, which is to treat people in the best ways possible by swearing to obey the obligations and conducting professionally ( ...

The current paper critically evaluates the research work based on the negative impact of Zika Virus on the physical conditions of people. The purpose of the paper is to develop an understanding of Zika Virus by appraising and critiquing its effects and water pollution on the players who will be coming to Rio, Brazil for Summer Olympic Games. The research paper will make use of the social contract theory that explains that individuals’ ethical and opinionated responsibilities are dependent on the agreement or conformity to the social order in which they exist. There are hundreds of athletic players expected ...

Introduction

Electronic health documentation (EHR) was introduced under the 111th American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009. The aim was to achieve an electronic health record for every citizen of the USA by the year 2014. The technological change in the nursing field has been met with both accolades and criticism. Those who endorse the method of recording patient information argue that it is safer and more convenient relative to the traditional paper method. The critics argue that the method is open to abuse by the hospital administrators and can be shared without the consent of the owners. Among these ...

The law in most of the countries has prohibited the sale of body organs. Although the organs are considered the property of an individual, the government still control and determine if they can sell their organs at choice (Atkinson & Sargent, 2007). The US government allows hospitals to harvest organs of dead individuals if their family does not claim them. However, in countries such as Spain, the government has allowed hospitals to harvest organs from the dead by enacting a law that allows hospitals to harvest organs from the dead unless the person had left a will prohibiting the harvest. ...

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Short answers 3 point seach What is medical tourism? Medical tourism is “where patients travel overseas for operations and various invasive therapies.” (Connell 2006, p. 1093).

What are 3 reasons people choose surgeries/procedures in other countries?

1. Economics – Even with health insurance, many procedures can be performed for a fraction of the cost overseas. 2. Quality of care – quality of care is increasing around the world to the near equivalent of Western countries. 3. More options- Even with health insurance, many patients find their health insurance companies limit the kinds of procedures they are able to receive.

What is the commoditization of care?

Turning health care into a commodity that is undifferentiated from other competing ...

Research is essential for the advancement of any field of study. Nevertheless, this becomes complicated when the object of the investigation is a human, as there is an accepted guideline that one should not do harm onto a person. In order to assure proper treatment of humans, ethical committees have arisen in many parts of the world, limiting the research that may be done. However, this comes into tension when one also takes into account the notion of liberty, as the two could contradict each other. In this sense, some would argue that ethics committees should not interfere in ...

Introduction

Individuals have many significant views about human life. There are some circumstances that a person love his life, but may choose to end it for some unwanted medical reason. Some individuals may be in a situation that requires an important decision to end someone else’s life, such as a doctor who was requested to end the patient’s life through assisted suicide. In some cases, a family member may need to decide whether or not to continue his relative’s suffering through continuous medication or to end the physical pain by discontinuing the treatment especially during terminal cases. ...

Introduction

Many people would describe ethics as something that is related to one’s feelings about what is wrong and right, while others would say that it has something to do a with person’s religious belief. Some individuals would also say that an ethical person will always act based on the law requires, while others may think of it as the standards of actions and behaviors that are socially accepted. Perhaps, ethics hold various definitions that make many people to define it based on their own perception. In the criminal justice system, ethics is one of the most essential ...

Quantitative research article

Empirical research in bioethical journals. A quantitative analysis by Borry, P., Schotsmans, P., & Dierickx, K.

Background/Introduction

The background of the research was to analyze the nature and evolution of the published empirical research in the fields of bioethics and medical ethics (Borry et al., 2006). This was prompted by an intense debate about the relationship between the normative and empirical perceptions of bioethics. By that time, there were only two studies which had described the nature and evolution of published empirical research in the field of bioethics and ethics and this study paper had to carry more research on this ...

Slide 2:

In the modern world today, we face as a global culture the inclination of civil wars and political crises and displacement of peoples. The quote mentioned above refers to the displacement of people due to natural and political disasters. When these disasters transpire, individuals are typically living in sub-standard living conditions. What ends up happening as a result is that people are exposed to living conditions with lower sanitation that were seen many centuries ago. This subjects these populations to diseases that they may have not been subject to previously. In order to combat this epidemic, we have to ...

Organ transplantation is one of the significant issues in health care. There are various legal and ethical considerations encompassing this topic. One of the issues evolving the transplantation of human organs is obtaining the consent of the family of a dead donor. Given that the process should be done in soonest possible time, obtaining a consent from the family will take otherwise. That is because, a grieving family member may not be able to make decisions right after her loved one passed away. On the other hand, this is a challenging scenario for the physicians as such consent is ...

The dream of every expectant mother is to give birth to a healthy baby when the nine months elapse. However, the culture of uncertainty among expectant mothers has engulfed their thoughts of the possibility of giving birth to children with disabilities. As a result, they have turned to clinics for prenatal screening with a hope of getting a clean bill of health from medical practitioners about their current situation. All these efforts are not in vain in their minds as long as they are assured their babies will not have Down’s syndrome. These frantic efforts paintan image of ...

The movie tells the story of Dax Cowart, who was a victim of pipeline explosion at the age of 25. The case of Dax highlights major points in healthcare in case of emergency situations, such as what he experienced. It was a tragic experience for Dax, as the injury that he got was something that made him decide to end his life through the help of his doctors. The physical pain that he suffered was described to be at the highest level during the time of his treatment at the hospital. The first major point of the movie was ...

The question of morality has been discussed throughout the history of philosophy. These questions cannot be solved through simple logic due to the philosophic difficulty that they present. This is important because in the modern world there are still major issues that challenge the capacity for rational decision making. This is especially true in regards to medical ethics, in which these decisions can often result in the difference between life and death. Should doctors be given the right to end patients lives in cases in which they are going through extreme suffering and are given consent? This brings up ...

Introduction

Currently, medical technology advancement has contributed to the development of new drugs for treating serious illness such as cancer. Apart from a cure, it has also created many problems in the health sector. Medical practitioners performing this kind of illegal act on patients do re-establish a secret between him and the client. One major factor that determines a society’s opinion on euthanasia is religion. Different Islamic countries have a separate view on termination of a patient’s life. The first team entails counties controlled by Islamic rules only; they accept Sharia as their legal and administrative leader such ...

History

Researchers today have gone through a long process to be able to take their research study to human subjects. Minors, elderly and prisoners’ studies are governed by numerous regulations and protocols. Other human subjects who do not fall under these categories are also protected by the regular standards that researchers must adhere to; for instance, informed consent and confidentiality. This was not always the case though; the journey to developing the modern medical ethics people enjoy today took years of conducting painful and brutal experiments on human subjects. The history of medical ethics seems to harbor many unthinkable and ...

Pilot Medical Privacy Laws and Germanwings Flight Crash

The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 en route from Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Spain to Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, which caused the death of 144 passengers and 6 crew members, is considered to be one of the grimmest aircraft crashes in European flight history. The sad reality of this event was that this mishap was caused by the deliberate attempts of a deranged co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who was being treated for suicidal tendencies and was also declared “unfit for work” by his doctor. The initial investigations done by the BEA (French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau) revealed that the ...

The United States health care system is one of the most progressive of all systems in the world. The system has managed to integrate culture and gender diversity to ensure every citizen in the United State receives health care without discrimination based on their ethnic group or gender. Additionally, the system is also accessible by the minority groups and the poor individuals in the society. This is evident by the expansion of Medicaid and Medicare programs to accommodate more citizens and provide them with insurance cover to access healthcare across the country. The efficiency levels and effectiveness that have ...

The purpose of drafting this memorandum is to induct you into your new job and strike out critical areas that are of importance to the organization. First, I will take you through a job description insight, to help you in adjusting to our organization culture, after which I shall make efforts to explain various problems specific to your department, and also the human resources department. Apparently, your primary responsibility will be strategic planning, and coming up with ideas to foster the organization's productivity.in this accord, healthcare system requires constant innovation to deal with various cognitive disorders among patients, and ...

Healthcare professionals are often faced with ethical dilemmas as well as questions and if they are inadequately solved, they could jeopardize the quality of health care, professional action or user autonomy (Purtilo & Doherty, 2015). As such, bioethical concerns should be effectively addressed to foster quality healthcare, professional action as well as user autonomy. The refusal of blood transfusions among individuals who practice the Jehovah witness faith is one of the major ethical dilemmas witnessed in healthcare. Inherently, members of the Jehovah witness do not accept blood transfusions based on their religious doctrines (Pozgar, 2014). Essentially, the beliefs of the ...

Introduction to Ethical principles

The medical ethics involve a set of four major ethical principles which together form the most widely used ethical framework for clinical and healthcare settings. These four major ethical principles have the potential to incorporate the most crucial decision making in various possible medical ethics involving cases: Autonomy to be respected for persons: This ethical principle upholds the sanctity of rights for individuals to make their own decisions. Thus, everyone has a right to make logical informed choices and decisions in due course of his role (UKCEN, 2011). Beneficence: This principle ensures that a healthcare professional should always maintain ...

Introduction

Research revealed that about 5% of rape cases among women resulted in pregnancy. Accordingly, many people consider tragic and undue circumstances such as rape and incest as a valid reason to turn to abortion when pregnancy occurs. Resorting to abortion under these cases, however, has been the subject of incessant debate. Two sides of the argument have been put forward about this theme, with people who believed that abortion is justifiable and those who claimed that abortion is not justifiable in any circumstance. In either way, most people would agree that women should not be made to endure from ...

Abstract Page

Gender equality in today’s era is the most important objective for development. Smart economics is represented by the gender equality. Greater the gender equality, greater are the chances of improved productivity, development outcomes for the coming generation are improved and institutions look more representative. This study aims to understand the Declining Sex Ratio in India, What are the reasons for declining child sex ratio, the gender gap and the need for policy reforms that should be taken to improve this Sex Ratio in India. Sex ratio is defined as the number of females against 1000 males. The result ...

Interprofessional collaboration has been one of the growing trends within the health care sector lately. It involves interdependence of the different health care professionals such as nurses, physicians, laboratory staff, and even patients. The complexity of the patient-care concerns that need to be tackled by these professionals can be efficiently and effectively addressed through appropriate collaboration among the professionals. However, the various evidenced provided by different researches on the benefits of collaboration are yet to be seen and applied in the activities in health care institutions (Porter-O’Grady, 2011). As mentioned, nurses are one of the stakeholders who are ...

Ethical dilemma

The ethical dilemma in this case is that a child has been diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, which requires urgent treatment. However, the child’s primary guardian would not consent to the treatment on account of her religious beliefs that forbids medical treatment. While the child’s father agrees that the treatment should proceed, he does not have primary custody over the child, and lives out of state to sign the requisite papers.

Component Parts

The physician’s professional autonomy and the patient’s autonomy are not only in conflict thus legally/ethically barring treatment, but there also is a conflict ...

The Proposed Plan for Solving the Problem

The problem that occurred at Sharp Memorial Hospital was the rendering of subpar health services to two ill patients which is contrary to the function of a hospital. In so doing, the implications of the services could end up doing, even more, harm to the patient. The complaints showed that the hospital does a have a shortcoming in its management as the services provided could have been from the signing in the front desk to receiving the actual treatment. The coordination of all the services provided at the hospital thus becomes very important. A hospital is ethically charged with ...

Now that technological progress has made it possible to apply medical innovations for saving human lives, there has appeared a measure of dissonance between the advocates and the adversaries of patents. Patenting means a person is granted a monopolistic or exclusive right to scientific achievement, which is purchasable for a certain financial reward that recoups the disclosure. However, patents imply zero availability of medical procedures to both patients and doctors, which places human lives in jeopardy. The point is that there is a need to protect intellectual property and the need for medical technologies to serve ethical purposes of saving human lives.

Is It Ethical to Patent Medical Procedures

Some experts ...

The article titled “U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says” was written by Jane Sutton in the Chicago Tribune newspaper on November 04 2013. In the article, Sutton reports the findings of a study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers which studied the conduct of US military doctors in the interrogation of detainees after the September 11 attacks.

The reporter states that military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating with interrogators to harm prisoners after the September 11 attacks in a bid to force ...

The tradition applied in medical practice since time immemorial that treatment is administered upon ascertaining that the person is a patient may be misleading as it is helpful. A patient should not necessarily be a person in order to qualify as a patient. I agree with this article because: In past medical ethics literature, the notion of “person” does not seem to have executed a major role in determining how medicine should not or should be administered with regard to a particular patient (Szasz). This notion does not just reveal the bad shape that the philosophy of medicine or medical ethics is in, ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

The patient is the ultimate decision maker concerning his/her medical care. It is the patient who gives the final word on whether to undergo a recommended medical procedure or treatment. The purpose of the physician in patient care is just to determine the best treatment for the patient’s problem based on their medical knowledge and judgment and present the recommendation to the patient to seek for their consent (Parker, 2013). The physician is to provide the patient with the necessary information on their condition and the treatment recommended, its benefits, possible risks, the complications in the procedure and if ...

Like any other business organization, the medical sector has a system of ethics which refers to moral principles that determine principles and rulings regarding the practice of medicine. Medical ethics as a scholarly discipline involves practical applications of the clinical atmosphere as well as application of the principles of philosophy, sociology and theology. This follows that fact that it is important to do right by the superior being, by the established societal morals and what is individually right. For this reason, persons seeking medical assistance (patients) have a right to enjoy their personal freedom while at the same time medical practitioners need ...

Many insurance companies have over the years taken advantage of their customers. Medical insurance companies have used the preexisting condition of their clients to deny them coverage that they desperately need. Clearly health insurance companies are not out to assist their clients but to maximize their profits. In the case of Rosalyn Schwartz, her insurance provider refused to extend insurance for ulcers.

This was because she already had ulcers at the time she sought to have her own health insurance. One of things that should have been done differently in the case of Rosalyn Schwartz was that in her ...

Jerry is a trained medical assistant and has the sufficient knowledge to issue a refill. However, in the situation he is faced with, he has to examine the medical history of the patient. He has further to consult with Dr. William who has been treating him and has some background and determine if the patient can be issued with a refill. In the event that Dr. William is not immediately reachable, he will have to examine the patient because he lacks any background information. Thorough medical checks have to be carried out so as to avoid a situation where a patient is issued with ...

Introduction

It is unethical for hospitals to charge uninsured patients more money than insured patients for similar medical procedures. This is according to medical ethics and professional codes of practise. However in most cases, this is rarely the case given challenges normally arise as a result of resource allocation. This can be best explained by the fact that despite the fact the primary healthcare of health institutions is care provision; these institutions just like any organization need resource allocation for them to be able to fulfil their mandate. As a result, it is common practise for hospitals to ignore principles of distributive ...

With the increasing medical knowledge and concerns, healthcare treatment of dying patient has raised a number of questions and ethical dilemma. Among different cultures, the treatment of death and dying resides according to their religious beliefs and faith. Therefore, the decision undertaken in a healthcare institute regarding dying or dead patients should be address ethical concerns. End of life care remains to be a controversial concern because of different norms, values and religious beliefs prevailing in a different culture that are required to address in a standardized manner. The treatment at the end of life remains to be one of the most controversial ...

Since ancient times the Hippocratic Oath has been considered as the code of medical ethics. It could be argued that there is a need to adapt the healthcare system to the needs of patients, taking into account the principles of social responsibility. The basic idea of ​​the new version of the Code of Medical Ethics is to ensure that the amount and quality of care do not depend solely on the solvency and social status of a patient. Apparently, the medical profession is closely related to conscience and ethics, and all patients should be treated equally, regardless of the size of ...

Discursively framed as “living death,” solitary confinement is considered to be the worst punishment for criminal offenders, as medical experts have noted that such an isolating experiences causes derangement of personhood on a grand scale. Indeed, one’s sense of concrete and tangible personhood depends on embodied relations to other human beings within the matrices of a shared universe in which meaningful experiences through relationships I s of paramount importance. As s result, solitary confinement has time and again been scrutinized in the western world because it is a practice that, human rights activists and lawyers argue, that is abusive in intangible ...

Abstract

Working in a multicultural health care setting calls for a workforce that clearly understand the ethical and legal considerations that exist in relation to culture, beliefs, background, as well as knowledge. While physician and nurses have the upper hand in ensuring quality health care as well as life sustaining measures, the patient holds a very critical role in dictating the care procedures that they prefer. Bioethics studies have had differing approaches to the issue of making informed consent to health care procedures. However, there is one thing that remains untouched. The greatest responsibility is the life if the patients and the satisfaction ...

Medical Ethics involves moral principles systems that are used to apply judgments and values in the practice of medicine (Henningfeld, 2011). This can be seen to direct medical practitioners on the best cause of actions to take to ensure professionalism of the field. This involves written and un-written ethical issues and policies. Cindy and Jenny could be seen to be both medical students at their university. This means that they are under the Medical ethics regulation. At all times, they are regulated to observe these policies in the most ethical manner possible As it is known, it ...

Euthanasia, which is regarded as the practice of voluntarily/intentionally ending life so as to relieve pain and suffering, has attracted a heated debate in the social, medical and religious circles (Heather, 1998). The definition of this term varies depending on the country in question. For instance, in Holland, it is regarded as termination of the life of a patient by a medical doctor following the patient’s approval (Heather, 1998). In the UK, the British House of Lords Committee on Medical Ethics holds the opinion that this is a practice executed with the aim of ending life in order to relieve burdensome suffering ( ...

Nursing

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES 1.) One of the compelling rights addressed by this case is medical autonomy. The right to autonomy gives the patients the opportunity to exercise reason which means rational reasoning based on a good ground of knowledge and understanding (Coggon and Miola, 2011, p.529). Every person has the right to make autonomous decision and engage in moral concepts. Liberty and autonomy go together. The importance of liberty is the freedom to act in accordance to autonomy. Agarwal and Murinson (2012, p.3.) stated that patient autonomy refers to the patient’s right to the involvement during the ...

There is a growing area of concern between the rights of patients and the often necessary practical needs of the students in the medical field. The debate has majorly focused on whether patient’s rights are infringed when a case of negligence or misdiagnosis has happened in a medical facility that has been set up to cater for the needs of the patients and to horn the skills of medical students. Cases of medical malpractice have been on the rise which has led to fatalities and other unplanned costs (Lim, pg. 6). There have been a number of cases whereby patients have lost ...

Informed Consent in Scientific Testing

‘Instructor’s Name’ ‘Subject’ Informed consent is the process of getting the prior consent of the patient, before choices about his/her health care is made. This concept is based on the, rights a patient has on her body, and the ethical duty of the physician to inform the patient about the things happening to her body. The consent might be required both for performing a therapy for the ailment of the patient, or to make them participate in a clinical trial. An informed consent is said to have been obtained from a patient, when she is fully aware of the facts ...

The well-known Finnerty case involved a registered nurse going by the name of Ellen Hughes Finnerty and the Board of Registered Nursing. Finnerty made a petition to the board requiring it to withdraw its disciplinary decision for incompetence and gross negligence. The reprimanding was connected to an incident in which the nurse failed to act according to the orders of a resident physician. The order was to immediately intubate a patient in his room. Instead, Finnerty moved the patient to the ICU then performed the intubation. The court found this an incompetent and grossly negligent act and denied her the petition based on ...

Ethics is defined as the accepted rule of conduct within a certain organization. It is a social code of behavior which governs a certain organization or members of a certain group or community. The associations can be a business organization, medical institution or a religious organization. Ethics should be distinguished from morality. Morality is defined as the conduct or the behavior of an individual. On the other hand, ethics is the accepted behavior of a group of people. For example, there were different ethical organizations which have different rules. These organizations include the church, the government, a business organization or a club organization. The ethical standards for members ...

Every person has a right to be treated and cared in the medical institutions and it also should be mentioned that he/she is the one who should decide what kind of treatment he/she wants to receive if there is any choice. Speaking about life-sustaining care we should remember that it is the area where it is not that easy to make decisions because usually you have to decide whether to stay in the hospital under some masks and tubes till the end of your life or die immediately. But what if there is no person except for the doctor or ...

Introduction

There are conditions in which medical treatment is provided either forcefully or without informed consent. There are plenty of such incidents arising with patients suffering from personality disorders, dementia and even with cancer treatment for non-consenting minors. There are some fundamental questions that arise regarding the existing law. A minor, who has little understanding and intelligence about the cancer treatment, cannot comprehend fully as to what is involved in their treatment. Anyone aged 16-17 is supposed to be deciding the consent for their treatment. There was a case of a child patient who was severely mentally and physically disabled child, ...

Fundamental ethical principles of nursing is respect for life, dignity and rights of the patient. The ethical responsibilities of nurses in the process of working with the patient is a certain set of actions to perform unconditional (for example, to respect the patient and his right to self-determination,the identification of their will to anything, to do no harm, to keep the word; to cooperate with patient).(Videbeck 2011) Cooperation with the patient means working together to tackle problems with his health. In the relationships between healthcare professionals and patients, both sides should be partners, in order to achieve ...

Over many years the topic of euthanasia causes mixed reactions in society. Attention to the issue of euthanasia has increased with the development of social progress, and in particular - the technology of life support for seriously ill people. Relevance of the topic cannot be overestimated, firstly, due to the fact that it is associated with the most expensive thing a man can have - his life, and secondly - because of poor knowledge of the problem, its lack of lighting in the works of lawyers and almost and big law gaps in the legislation. Numerous debates on this ...

The topic that I was assigned is the physician-assisted suicide. How is physician-assisted suicide viewed by the medical profession? Is physician-assisted suicide legal in the U.S? The ethical dilemma I am examining is, should this be a decision between a physician and the patients, or should it be controlled by the state? I believe this should be a matter that should be left between the physician and the patient. A physician-assisted suicide refers to a situation where a medical practitioner or a physician facilitates the suicide of a patient. The process involves prescription of a controlled substance thus assisting in a suicide. The topic is very relevant ...

As the top health administrator for Well Care Hospital in Happy Town, USA, I place a great deal of importance on professional conduct within my particular health care setting. Because of the often life-and-death ramifications of the actions of health care professionals in all aspects of the profession, it is doubly important that these officials operate at the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. Allowing hospital misconduct to flourish under my administration would reflect poorly on myself as well as the rest of the staff, and diminish patient confidence and faith in our ability to do our jobs. Consequently, maintaining ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Placebos and Ethics Introduction The only thing second in the medical field to successfully treating a patient is doing it ethically. Ethics are supposed to be held in the highest degree by doctors and nurses in order for patients to feel safe and optimistic about the treatment they receive. Treatments, under the Hippocratic Oath and several moral and ethical maxims must be provided in a safe, ethical manner in order for them to be considered justified practices. Examples include delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients, and antibiotics to patients with viruses. Other instances may involve obtaining conscientious permission from the ...

Abortion

Life is often considered sacred and a right for all people no matter what ethnic group, religion, ideology, age group or health condition a person belongs. In every live created, it is to be treasured and filled with love. However, there are some couples or individuals who would forcefully remove this new life from the mother’s womb due to the responsibilities this new life would entail. This issue of aborting the fetus has been the subject of many debates throughout history as religion – most especially the Catholic Church – reiterates that it is an act that violates the sanctity of life. ...