Dr. Conrad Murray Case Study

Josie King death could had easily been avoided, by simply treating the patient and not the vital signs. Josie’s mother voiced her concern about the deterioration of her daughter health. The nurse neglect to listen to the mother or advocate for the patient. Once Josie arrested due to dehydration and methadone, the nurse should not have given her another dose. Communication between patient to nurse and doctors was not taking seriously by staff. Nurses are often in a rush to complete assignments often overlooking the small thing. In a case, when a nurse ran versed 100mg in one hour, just so she wouldn’t have to talk to the patient family.

#1 With no change in volume (utilization), is the clinic projected to make a profit?

It seems logical that people go to college to earn a degree in the field of study they want to pursue. However, in some rare occasions this not always True. Dr. Cameron Gilbert is a case of a person who has done just that. Dr. Gilbert is currently an owner of a budding neuropsychiatric hospital system. Strangely, Dr. Gilbert’s expertise, according to his degree is in geriatric neuropsychology, yet his career has encompassed mainly management and business instead of the clinical work that his degree entails. I sat down with Dr. Gilbert to try and understand how this doctor of mental diseases found his way into the business world.

An article written by Dahlia Lithwick, published on Slate, was released on April 17, 2017. The article tells the story of an act some may call immoral: the death penalty, and how the state of Arkansas is rushing to execute inmates before their lethal injection drugs expire. Shortly before this article was published, an order by a judge detailed the risks of the speedy executions. Lithwick’s career focuses on law and she writes regularly about the justice system for Slate. Lithwick’s passion for fairness in the law system is the root of her key point. She

Inmates in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, located in McAlester, Oklahoma, sued state officials after the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014 led to Lockett laying in agonizing pain for 40 minutes after receiving the lethal injection cocktail, waiting for his heart attack to kill him (Konrad, Web). Richard E. Glossip and the other death row inmates petition the Court, believing that the use of midazolam as the initial drug of execution violated the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment (S. Ct, p.1). The Supreme Court of the United States of America denied the motion in a 5-4 ruling, stating prisoners “failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the

Further study of the case revealed that the issue with the court case involves the type of criminal intent required, was it in whole or the part intention to breach the anti-kickback statue by entering into an agreement with the doctors? Another concern was did Mr. McClatchey breach the anti-kickback statute? It is my understanding that Mr. McClatchey believes the jury was presented inappropriate instruction on the rule and requested for a clemency which was given. However, the United States government is appealing the court case.

Hector Alvarez I disagree with your opinion about District Judge, Henry Wingate making the right decision to postpone the executions of the two death row inmates. Fact is that most inmates will come up with any excuse to not deal with the consequences that they have brought upon themselves. The lawyers argument is built on assumptions that the lethal injection is not potent enough because the compounds were not released to the public. “Chemical torture” as referred by the death row inmates by the lethal injection is nothing compared to gruesome crimes they have committed during their lives with no intentions of rehabilitating during the time they were incarcerated. Should laws be reconsidered or postponed because inmates feel uncomfortable

“When it comes to healthcare, ‘bad people’ are as equal as the rest of us” (646). When someone is sentenced to execution it is decided by the criminal justice system, not the medical community. The justice system views these peoples’ social worth as so low that they deserve to die for the crimes they have committed. “The

Texas was the first state to use lethal injection for execution in 1982. Fast forward 33 years, the topic of medical professions participating is an intense debatable topic. There have been multiple attempts of execution that have failed terribly; however not all of the mishandled executions were due to the lethal injection, but also electrocution and asphyxiation. The moral question here is though, as a role in the medical profession who is dedicated in preserving life when there is hope, should they or should they not participate in an execution? Although it is necessary for doctors to check on people physically and mentally, it is not necessary for them to carry out the execution.

Metzner & Fellner (2010) stated, “Physicians are ethically obligated to refrain from countenancing, condoning, participating in, and facilitating torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” (p.106). Physicians are discouraged from participating in interrogations and executions of convicted offenders. There has been several botched executions in the United States and “courts in some states have ruled that a doctor must be present during the execution to monitor the condemned for signs of pain. The American Medical Association states that physicians who take part in executions violate medical

Can a pathologist, after being discredited get off virtually free from his life destroying mistakes? Dr. Charles Smith is certainly making it clear that, the penalties are far from just. Dr. Smith was formally known to be one of Canada’s best in, forensic child pathology. He practiced at SickKids in Toronto and conducted more than 1000 autopsies. Dr. Charles Smith conducted the autopsy on Brenda Waudby’s 21 month old daughter which resulted with, Brenda being charged with second-degree murder in 1997. In 2006, however, the baby sitter who was looking after the child pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Brenda Waudby was one of the many of the victims wrongfully convicted because of Dr. Smith’s statements.

Kevorkian administered a lethal injection. Dr. Kevorkian was tried for first degree murder in Oakland County, Michigan as the result of the TV show. Prosecutors argued that, in administering a lethal injection to Youk, his actions constituted euthanasia rather than PAS. Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder in 1998, sentenced to a 15-25 year term of which he served 8 years, and was released in 2007 (Levine, 2009) .

Medical malpractice claims have risen dramatically over the past 40 years alongside the financial claim awards (Kessler, 2011). Currently, America’s medical tort system is regulated and enforced primarily by the states (“Medical Tort System,” 2016). The main focus of tort law is to preserve the peace between two parties, to determine fault and discourage wrong doing (Pozgar, 2016). Most physicians today carry medical malpractice insurance to protect themselves from the high defense costs of claims and potential financial awards (Kessler, 2011). As the number of medical claims increase and jury awarded punitive damage skyrocket, medical malpractice insurance premiums have also risen dramatically (Kessler, 2011). Malpractice insurance

2) Benatar, D. wrote in his article “A legal right to die: responding to slippery slope and abuse arguments. Current Oncology, 18(5), 206–207.” that being forced to live a life that is intolerable when there are doctors who can help in death is a violation of a person’s freedom to live and die as they believe fit.

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.