health issues and any other type of medical issue. It's almost along the same lines as the over opinionated “soccer mom” or “hockey dad”, but when forcing your child suffer from not getting the proper medical or psychological support it's a lot more damaging for the child. Just because someone is a parent, honestly doesn't make them an expert on every aspect of their children. Let's be honest, how many of us have heard parents say things such as. • I don't believe that doctors have my child's
My great-grandmother passed away four years ago, under the care of irresponsible emergency medical staff at the LewisGale Pulaski community hospital. Her death was due to complications from a stroke, which could have been easily taken care of, had the hospital staff diagnosed her in a correct and timely manner. The medical staff took at least two hours to diagnose her stroke, then refused to give her stroke medication after they did make a diagnosis, claiming it was too late. In the following ethical
First, I went onto procon.org to get some background information on medical marijuana. I learned that there were many facets to this topic. There were legal, ethical, and medical dilemmas with legalizing medical marijuana. I also discovered that many states already have the substance legalized. Another article where I found good background info about the risks, benefits, uses, and certification was “Medical Marijuana” by Amy E. Thompson. After gaining some basic knowledge there were a
the Constitution? Does the Compassionate Use Act, which allows for the use of medical marijuana in California, protect citizen’s rights to use and distribute marijuana for medicinal purposes? The decision made by the Supreme Court would spark debate over these questions as well as similar topics such as federal abuse of power, doctor patient confidentiality, and the decriminalization of marijuana across America. In my paper, I will cover the events and influences leading up to the Supreme Court’s
for medical purposes. (2011) At the height of the “War on Drugs” political leaders and the media stressed the link between crime and illicit drug use, as well as an attempt to influence people to refrain from drug use for public health reasons.(citation) The message today is quite different. Fourteen states now having medical marijuana laws and two have made recreational marijuana is legal. This reality is likely to change the tone of the articles. The media is how leaders send policy issues to
begin with I don’t think either I or my husband really understood the complexities of the disorder and so I think it was just a very scary time for us initially…After talking to doctors and getting support from my family it was easier for me to accept the outcome but I knew that abortion was not really a choice I was willing to take and so I tried to find people who had completed the birth of a baby in the same situation as me and my husband to help support my decision of keeping Adam.” How did you
Discuss the legal and ethical issues regarding family-witnessed resuscitation (FWR) There are several legal and ethical issues relating to FWR. Some of the key legal concerns expressed by healthcare professionals include the potential for litigation, patient confidentiality, and the patient’s right to privacy (Mian et al, 2007; Critchell et al, 2007). Litigation and liability concerns arise from the fact that, in most cases, family members will have little understanding of the procedures used
Ethical issue in the news June 2016 Three online news articles, two of which are New Zealand-centric, on the subject of elective abortion were published on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of June. News The first article I read called attention to New Zealand’s elective abortion laws, which criminalises elective abortion. The article claimed that the laws are outdated and requires change. It mentioned the pro-elective abortion faction’s campaign to remove elective abortion from the 1961 Crimes Act
speaks (but is not limited) to issues of power as it is legitimately positioned around medical and social service practitioners as absolute. Here in lies the strength of the queer theory analysis used by LeFrançois and Diamond as it uncovers specific examples of the use of these power discourses. Holmes et al. (2006) cites Michael Foucault’s words around the idea that the political power discourses in the medical sciences “work[s] to incite, reinforce, control, monitor, optimize, and organize the
medevac helicopter landed at Hershey Medical Center, carrying a critically ill infant patient with an abnormal cardiac rhythm. Now, almost 21 years after that flight, that same infant, now a healthy adult working in emergency medical services, has transferred his own critical patients to the care of a medevac crew and flown as an observer aboard the aircraft. That infant was me; this parallel is just one example of how my life experiences with healthcare have shaped my dream to become a physician.