Breast Implants Claim Summary

Authors Note: This paper is being submitted on the 18th of March 2013 for the winter semester of Medical Law and Ethics section 05.

This duty was then breached. Either care was not administered, or it was ministered improperly. The quality of the care is established through the testimony of expert testimony from other doctors.

Biomaterials, whether from natural or synthetic origin, have been used for many biomedical applications ranging from surgery to drug delivery (1). Of particular interest is the use of silicone products for breast implants, which are medical prostheses serving to augment or reconstruct breasts (1). To date, silicone is one of the most commonly used materials for plastic surgery procedures in North America (1, 2). The first silicone breast implants were developed in 1961 and were available for use by 1962. At that time, there was limited awareness on the safety and efficacy of silicone in breast implants, but this view changed when attention was drawn to repeated reports involving adverse reactions after implantation (1, 3-5). This led to a moratorium on silicone breast implants in 1992 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (5). After extensive research, the majority of results concluded that there were no major harmful effects associated with silicone products. In 2006, FDA approved the use of silicone products in breast implants, which currently leaves silicone as the only available material for this purpose (3, 5, 6). Since that time, there has been controversy around the nature and associated complications related to silicone products in breast implants (1, 2, 5). This is reflected by the current body of literature, and seems to result from a lack of consistency in the methodologies used to determine the mechanisms underlying silicone transport, uptake,

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“The only appropriate and realistic model of the Dr.‐patient relationship is paternalism. Doctors are the medical experts; most patients have little, if any, reliable medical knowledge; implicit trust in one’s physician is essential to the healing process; and doctors have the responsibility for our health and therefore have the duty to make all the important medical decisions.” Critically assess that claim.

The first step to imparting an industry wide sense of accountability throughout the healthcare profession that affects employers and employees alike is to recognize the need for this assuming of responsibility.

In an effort to provide high-quality health care while avoiding a Culture of Blame in the work environment, health care organizations are planning and implementing new ways of facilitating accountability and constant improvement. Understanding the importance of accountability for excellent health care, experts and organizations are planning and implementing a Just Culture. Just Culture understands that "to err is human," involves an organization's entire hierarchy and encourages every member to constantly improve health care through team effort.

Even doctors within facilities operate within their fields with colleagues in the position of authority. Advanced practice nurses should be treated no

An individual can lose a lot when they fall to professional malpractices. It can be their natural physical appearance. It can be their sense of confidence and self-esteem. It can also be their savings or future earnings. With so much at stake, it is promoted that professionals get a professional liability insurance.

at the center had also recommended that they go to a private clinic! Just like the nurse at the clinic, she had recommended paying for better health care.

Although on the outside, it seems as though this case is trying to reduce the medical safety in these clinics, looking deeper, it becomes apparent that in the long run it does the women of America a bigger injustice by forcing these restrictions on clinics.

Breast augmentation is rapidly becoming a common procedure among women in the United States. Shows detailing the surgery on TV station such as MTV and VH1 show mothers and their daughters getting implants together and teenage girls thrilled with their new 34-D chests. What most of these shows don't mention are the possible risks and painful recovery that come with the procedure. That breast implants are becoming more and more an accepted part of popular culture raises several questions. Are implants as safe and easy as they seem? Are women getting implants because they expect them to radically change their lives? More importantly, does our culture really believe that breast

I work for an organisation called Londonwide Local Medical Committees (LLMC). LLMC is the ‘clinically led independent voice of GPs in the capital’. We aim to support all general practice (GPs) in London; LLMC’s mission statement is ‘Securing the future of general practice’; this is achieved through the work we do with our partners in the Health and Social Care sector. There are over 7,000 GPs and over 1,300 practices in London that we support and represent through our 27 locally elected committees (LMC). LMC are a part of the NHS landscape and are recognised in statute which makes them qualified to provide advice, guidance and support on a range of issues that affect general practice. LMC are the only independent, elected and representative body for local GPs. Here at Londonwide, a central team provides London GPs and their practices with support on three

This however, is simply not true as patients in the independent sector now

Today, more and more women think about cosmetic surgery to make their bodies look perfect. The most popular kind of plastic surgery is breast augmentation. Some women want to enlarge their breasts; the others wish to correct their sagging bust, and they go to a surgeon and ask him or her to change their body. A short-term effect of such operation is full satisfaction with the new appearance and improvement of sexual life. Women often feel excited and think that their life will change for the best. However, such feelings are often temporarily, and they may develop into something worse. Therefore, there is another side of breast augmentation, which is less pleasant than the previous one. Such long-term effects as depression, pain, discomfort, various infections as well as suicide are experienced by many women who underwent a plastic surgery. Consequently, the theme of breast augmentation is important since it relates to thousands of women who hesitate whether to change their breasts or not, especially those women who have already made an operation. Although breast augmentation helps women become more self-confident in their beauty, this type of cosmetic surgery has also many negative effects such as unwillingness to breastfeed, different health problems, and even suicide.