Argumentative Essay On The Benefits Of Physician Surgery

"Better, A Surgeons Notes on Performance" by Dr. Atul Gawande, allows us an insight on his experiences as he explores the breakthroughs in medicine that was accomplished by people striving to improve their performance. There are three components Dr. Gawande believed are essential for a medical professional to encompass; diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. He defines diligence as avoiding errors and overcoming obstacles by paying attention to details. Doing right as a medical professional is to do right for our patient. And ingenuity, recognizing your failures and be willing to change by looking for solutions for better medical care. It is through his experiences as a surgeon that he came to understand the importance of encompassing these components.

Medical malpractice lawsuits are an extremely serious topic and have affected numerous patients, doctors, and hospitals across the country. Medical malpractice is defined as “improper, unskilled or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional” (Medical malpractice, n.d.). If a doctor acts negligent and causes harm to a patient, malpractice lawsuits arise. Negligence is the concept of the liability concerning claims of medical malpractice, making this type of litigation part of tort law. Tort law provides that one person may litigate negligence to recover damages for personal injury. Negligence laws are designed to deter careless behavior and also to

I am equipped with professional qualities, and can work collaboratively with other professionals, I have astute attention to details and I possess great communication qualities in my current workplace and as a student. I have passionate curiosity and ambition towards the ever-changing Surgical Technologies, with a passion to improve the quality of the human life. These are what I feel are the personal qualities I have that makes me a successful student the Surgical Technology program. I am currently in my second to last semester in the surgical technology program and have had a great experience learning in the operating rooms during my clinical times. I am applying for this scholarship to help assist me in my surgical technology program

Every one of us has relied on a medical professional at least a few times in our lives. When we get seriously ill, or suffer a serious injury, we put our health in the hands of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, fully expecting to be treated with a certain degree of professionalism and safety. Unfortunately, sometimes the expected care is not given, or not given to the extent which the ailment requires. In these situations, we can feel blindsided, confused, even taken advantage of.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” This saying goes to show that investing in preventative care is the only way to effectively reform health care plans in America. It is no secret that there are many issues facing health care; however, the most important issue seems to be the lack of funding for preventative care. Redistributing health care related funds into areas like public health and preventative medicine can increase the overall quality of life for patients. If health care reform revolves around preventative medicine, then America’s standard of health will rise. A healthier society will lessen the demand for expensive life-saving surgeries, thus decreasing the overall cost of health care. The overall solution for this issue would be to set a realistic health care budget that correlates to the United States’ current standard of health, thus majority of the budget focuses on preventative medicine.

This is a big advantage for health care administrators in the Unites States, by getting choice of some of the best and brightest health care professionals of the future. This alone gives them an advantage to attract patients from all locations to receive top quality health procedures. World renowned physicians give great publicity to organizations which usually translate into a large amount of donations towards medical science and technology. This leads to increased ability to recruit top medical professionals and be on the forefront of innovation. Third party payers benefit from inflation of costs, because increased demand on services from the top physicians. This allows them to create prestige tiers for insurance costs because of the quality of the service

Four compensation models are laid out by the Bangor Family Physician case study. These models include: (1) revenue model; (2) net income model; (3) base salary plus

Their total work hours reported outside of patient care was about 15 % of time. The survey also revealed that 4 % of physicians reported being “very dissatisfied” with their careers and that 12 % of physicians reported as having very inadequate time with their patients. The fifth outcome reported the average net income of physicians in 2005 was about $195,000 dollars.

A physician assistant is a medical practitioner who works under the supervision of a licensed doctor. However the doctor does not have to be present while the physician assistant performs. If a doctor is unavailable and it is an emergency the physician assistant or PAs can talk over the phone with a doctor. Fewer than 100 PAs were practicing in 1970 and about 74,800 physician assistants are employed in the United States now (“Physician”). Physician assistants help the community everyday by helping with illness, and a lot of other health issues. They work every day to help and treat people and they are a big help to doctors. Pas alleviate some stress from the doctors and creates a healthier environment for everyone.

They are more likely to be compensated in part on the basis of quality than physicians in small or medium-sized group practices. Financial incentives that are facing with doctors and hospitals push up cost. But not all doctors have a financial incentive to over treat patients. In particular, some hospitals are owned and operated by health maintenance organization insurance companies. At these hospitals doctors are salaried employees who receive no financial rewards for their performance. Physicians are paid before services with set amount of money for each patient. The amount that is rewarded determines by the service that is giving for each patient. These charges are developed by using general expenses and normal operation of services. This proportion is a capitation security pool. This funding cannot be compensated to doctors until the end of the economic year. The only method doctors will get compensated or uncompensated is for their medical services; only if the procedure does monetarily adequately or inadequately expenses will

Part of the cost-driving factor seen here is in the gluttony of physicians who provide care to a patient. In areas which are high in physicians supply, competition might promote utilizing more expensive procedures and treatments in the care of patients. The amount spent on health care is also not beneficial to the outcomes that come out of such care (Emanuel,

     Imagine yourself lying on an operating table, motionless, quiet. Above, you notice people standing over you. You try to speak but the words just cannot come out. Your arms feel as if they are plastered to the table. You begin to stand up but feel as if weights are strapped to your back and you are bound to the table. Suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your midsection. In and out, you see a surgeon slicing your body open with a scalpel. Every motion the masked person makes is as if you are being torn apart from the inside out. One would hope this would simply be a nightmare and they will wake up and everything will be fine. In this instance, this person will

It is imperative for countries to have a functioning health care system so their citizens can live their best quality lives. However, the question is raised on whether to focus on the treatment of illnesses or the prevention of them. Preventive health care, if implemented correctly, could ideally prevent and stop illness and disease before drastic measures need to be taken, such as expensive surgeries. It is well-known knowledge that a healthy diet and exercise can help prevent illnesses, as a result, some programs might emphasize a healthy lifestyle. Sharon Begley’s article in Reuters mentions some programs that have helped reduce health care costs, such as the Boston Children’s Hospital asthma program that helps reduce patient’s environmental

Since the beginning of human civilization, our health and well-being has sustained a high level of importance, because one’s physical and mental condition are things that are necessary to care for. The issue however remains in how our governments should assist in this care and how involved they should be in the world of doctors, drugs and healthcare companies. Many have strong opinions on this complex issue, and governments have attempted many different strategies which have been met with a sweeping range of results, from the corrupt health care companies which can be seen in the US to systems which have been denounced as communism to everything in between. Personally, I believe that completely universal healthcare is the best for society as a healthy population increases economic productivity, the system allows you to contribute incrementally over time and your wealth should not influence your access to care.

Imagine you are injured or sick and have sought a doctor’s help. Although you trusted your doctor, something, something seemingly very in control of the doctor, went wrong. You are angry and confused, but also think of the commonality of medical malpractice. So, why do doctors, who are supposed to help, harm? Though many flaws influence it, malpractice can be, and often is unintentional. Most doctors aren’t trained to harm their patients. Inexperience and lack of medical discovery led to unintentional suffering of the patient. Personal flaws, like lack of willingness to abandon previous medical methods and shortcomings in communication also harm patients. Further reasons why doctors harm are socio-medical understandings that breed hate, prejudices stemming from a society’s belief about certain people, such as the medical practice under the Nazi regime. Additionally, displayed in the case of Ignác Semmelweis, judgement of one to oneself can be detrimental to any progress one’s ideas could make. We will examine these concepts through Jerome Groopman’s “Flesh-and-Blood Decision Making”, Sherwin Nuland’s The Doctors’ Plague and Barbara Bachrach’s “In the Name of Public Health”. Those who practice medicine are, unfortunately, unfree from the imperfections that plague all of humanity. Through these intimate and varied faults, doctors do harm.