Ethical Dilemmas Of The Medical Settings

Nurses are constantly challenged by changes which occur in their practice environment and are under the influence of internal or external factors. Due to the increased complexity of the health system, nowadays nurses are faced with ethical and legal decisions and often come across dilemmas regarding patient care. From this perspective a good question to be raised would be whether or not nurses have the necessary background, knowledge and skills to make appropriate legal and ethical decisions. Even though most nursing programs cover the ethical and moral issues in health care, it is questionable if new nurses have the depth of knowledge and understanding of these issues and apply them in their practice

The discussion on Patrick Dismuke's condition concentrated on his incapability to improve. After reviewing his symptoms and considering possible scenarios resulting from certain kinds of treatment, such as the tube that delivered nutrients into his veins that "broke the barrier between blood and air" and became "a bacteria-laden Trojan horse, opening the door to infection", we attempted to come to a consensus on what would constitute a quality life, as deliberated among the committee. We took into consideration that after every kind of surgery, his status would be temporarily improved but ultimately decline in keeping with his body's proclivity. We acknowledged that the idea of a successful stomach transplant was remote since, as

The argument regarding the selling of organs on the black market has been an ethical and medical controversy for decades. The problems that exists ethically is to be believed that putting a price on a human organ is materialistic, people may go to extremes to donate a kidney, and the fear of the spread of infections or diseases. Although the fears are natural, mostly because people have always associated the black market with a negative connotation, the ethical fears out-weigh the idea that donating a kidney can save a person’s life (Taylor, 2006). To make an accurate assumption about organs on the black market, both the positives and negatives need to be evaluated, this paper analyzes both positions regarding the issue and proposes that

Varying departments, universities, and private corporations have different ways in researching and determining the ethical components of their programming. These varying elements can influence communities in many different ways. When examining the values associated, and the public health considerations we must take into account the following values, as outlined by the University of Toronto.

There are various ethical dilemmas throughout the medical field. Some cases are more challenging than others. In, “My Sister’s Keeper,” a thirteen-year-old girl named Anna, hired a lawyer to sue her parents for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived to become a medical donor to her older sister Kate who was diagnosed with acute promyleocytic leukemia. After several years of donating to her sister, she eventually decides to express her feelings about no longer wanting to being a donor. She states that she is worried about her own health and wellness in the future if she continues to donate.

Often, we encounter conflicting values when we discus ethical, legal and regulatory conflicts within a healthcare facility. Because of a possible problem or danger to a patient, the healthcare facility often look to governmental/legal solutions to create a fix for this problem. However, in order to fully implement these solutions, there are certain regulations that needs to be followed. These solutions can also be unethical which leads to the patient autonomy and freedom being negatively impacted.

When working in the medical field you have to follow a certain medical ethic/work ethic. Which is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. To better understand this medical ethic im going to list real life cases also known ad scenarios.

Medical decisions can be extremely challenging for people to make, especially without any former medical training. A case where a child was treated for meningitis without parent consent has come to light and brought with it many questions. Do doctors have the right to treat children without parent consent? Should parents lose the ability to consent if they are not making the proper choices? How can parents make these choices without any prior medical knowledge? From an ethical standpoint, there is no right answer, however both the doctor and parents should be held responsible and hospitals need reform with regards to ethics and ethical decisions.

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Patients should be treated with respect and politely since they are in a fragile state and more so, they have their own right as an individual. It is the duty of a caregiver or anyone responsible for his /her health to do anything in order to promote the patients' health. Therefore, it is wrong for somebody taking care of a patient, to burden or impose strenuous activities on him/her. In this case, the first thing to do after learning of the events which has taken place in you absence, first it is necessary to terminate the caregiver's services, and advice the caregiver that what he/she did was not of best interest to the patient's health promotion. After a thorough talk and advice to the caregiver, the patient too should be counseled and reassured that any services provided will be of good intention and the best interest to him/her journey to recovery (Catherine Myser, 1995). In case the patient's faith in the kind of services the caregiver used to give him/her has deteriorated because of being subjected to mental torture, then a new caregiver/nurse should be assigned to the patient.

In the perfect sense the four medical ethics, autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are applied correctly 100% of the time for all medical cases. Unfortunately, perfect is sometimes too good to be true, and these ethics are not always applied. I feel within the Belkin text these principals are broken more than followed. For instance, Javier kept a lot of information regarding decisions away from Patrick which would conclude Javier was going against effective autonomy. An experience where effective autonomy was applied was with Armando. Armando was asked many times if he wanted to proceed with medical care, if he wants to be DNR, if he wanted to live, he if wanted this procedure/that procedure. Armando was aware of all possible

Doctors have a clear and unequivocal obligation to blow the whistle in cases like that of the Johnson & Johnson product Articular Surface Replacement. In this case, the doctors were paid consultants. If I were a paid consultant, it would completely alter my perspective on the case. I might also succumb to peer pressure or to fear that blowing the whistle would hurt my practice. The continued relationships with companies like Johnson & Johnson can prove highly lucrative in the long run. As a human being, I could be tempted by greed as well as the need to preserve my reputation as a medical doctor. Other reasons why I might be tempted to remain silent include what Meier (2013) points out as the sense of loyalty that develops between the doctor and the company executives who have taken me out to dinner and bought me gifts.

Healthcare professionals try to make the best decisions for their patient as objectively as possible without emotions clouding their judgement. On the other hand, there are benefits to feelings when treating a patient that make the care more personalized. Clearly, a balance exists between complete apathy and empathy towards patients. “Nothing is more indispensable to ethics and, at the same time, more detrimental to the ethical quality of a decision than an emotion.”[???] What are the advantages and disadvantages of an emotional response? Should doctors use emotions? Emotions such as compassion, fear, and anger can be influential factors in making an ethical decision.

Medical ethics, and the adherence to ethical procedures, is of the utmost importance when working in the field of biological sciences. A scientist, especially those working with animal and human populations, must follow a strict ethical code, which, condensed, amounts to “do no harm” - but in effect is significantly more complex and nuanced due to the ever changing and evolving state of medical ethics and recent developments in pharmaceutical and genetic methods of treatment. Many novel treatments may cast into doubt what is considered ethical and unethical – new developments in stem cell therapy, genetic engineering, transplant surgery, and pharmaceutical testing all have their own moral “grey areas” in terms of what is considered unethical. Is the line blurred between ethical and unethical practice, and therefore practice and malpractice, when to do harm unto one could potentially save thousands, if not millions?

The case scenario in question verily presents a mind boggling situation. We are introduced to an intelligent woman of a credible forty years of age, suffering from a painful neurological affliction. As explained, her condition, the Gullian-Barnes syndrome, undermines the quality of her life greatly, by tremendously restricting her ability to move or to even so much as breathe on her own. Ms Katherine depends upon life support and her paralysis has rendered her bodily functions negligible.