Physician Assisted Suicide Case Study

In 1981, in San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests the family savings in medical scanners, which eventually financially breaks the family financially, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda (Thandie Newton). Their son Christopher (Jaden Smith) stays with Chris because he and his wife both know that he will be able to take better care of him. The misspelling of the word ‘happiness’ is obviously intentional. The mural outside of Christopher’s day care spelled it wrong everyday. Gardner pitched a fit about how he wanted it changed because it was just teaching the kids the wrong way of spelling it. The owner of the day care told him that it is not important to the kids how it is spelled. It is only important that

Two days after his return from his gulf coast adventure he was admitted to the hospital.

“Someone call 911”, I said, when I saw a girl fall down the stairs lying unconscious. The nurse at Rockdale County High School assisted with the situation. My friend Fred and I held her so she wouldn’t hurt herself any more than had already been done. The nurse notified us that this girl has epilepsy (meaning that a person has had two or more seizures, but it’s not contagious & is not caused by mental illness or mental retardation). I didn’t pay too much attention to what the nurse was saying because I was focused on the girl's breathing and her ability regain consciousness. The nurse insisted on calling her sister to be there for her when she wakes up. The nurse knew that when she would wake up, she would want to hug one of us or her sister because all she remembers is blacking out during the time it took place.

Jessica is a 30 year-old single female. She has a very low stress job and lives at home with her mother. Jessica has always been a mediocre achiever. She has not graduated college, which has been on and off in attendance for six years. She has very high standards for herself and can be very self-critical. Lately, she has struggled with significant feelings of worthlessness and shame due to her inability to perform as well as her younger brother.

The advance directive also allows individuals to designate an agent to make health related decisions. The decisions might include “Resuscitation, Mechanical ventilation, Tube feeding, Dialysis, Antibiotics or antiviral medications, Comfort care (palliative care), Organ and tissue donations, and body donation for a scientific study.” (Mayo Clinic Consumer Health, 2015). Thus, an advance directive plays an important legal role in the end of life issues.

It was a chilly day but began just as any other day of shadowing a pediatrician. We rushed between patients in order to keep on schedule but instead of dismissing patients early, thorough evaluation remained present. This next patient, however, was one apart from the ordinary. A father had brought his child in to see the doctor but it was the end of the routine checkup which was disjoint with the mundane patient. It was a series of troubles his wife possessed over the past weeks and contemplation of suicide followed by a narrative of the futile efforts of every single doctor she had seen. The end of his child’s evaluation ended in the father’s insipid begging to see his wife despite the fact he was just a pediatrician and had no jurisdiction among adults. Succumbing to the father in concern for her safety, the doctor told him to bring her in during his lunch hour.

Physician-assisted suicide first became legalized in Australia’s Northern Territory on 1 July 1996 (Walker 21). It was later legalized in Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Quebec, Oregon, Montana, Washington and Vermont (Gulu 1). In Michigan, throughout the 1990s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian petitioned to legalize assisted suicide and help over one hundred and thirty people commit suicided in and eight year period (Schneider 1). Dr. Kevorkian was in prison for eight years for second degree murder (Schneider 1). According to Jack Lessenberry, “Jack Kevorkian, faults and all, was a major force for good in this society. He forced us to pay attention to one of the biggest elephants in society’s living room: the fact that today vast numbers of people are alive who would rather be dead, who have lives not worth living”(Schneider 2). Due to Dr. Kevorkian’s assistance in an Oregon schoolteachers death, Oregon passed its Death With Dignity Act (Schneider 2). On the 1 November 2014, Brittany Maynard took advantage of Oregon’s legality of physician-assisted suicide.

In August of 2000, a pregnant woman gave birth to conjoined twins, Jodie and Mary. They were given six months to live, however, if the doctors operated it would be possible to separate them and save Jodie's life but it would mean that Mary would die instantly. The parents argued that they wanted to leave both alive even if it meant killing both in the end, but the Hospital argued that it would be in their best interest to save Jodie and perform the operation. The hospital won the court case and operated successfully on them inevitably saving Jodie, but Mary died. The first side to the argument is that we should save as many people as possible, which in this case would mean sacrificing Mary so that Jodie might live instead of letting of letting

The question # 9 was most hard to answer for me. I have not any religious preferences, so I haven’t moral dilemma in this case. I believe that individual shouldn’t suffer just for suffer without a hope that things may change for the good. In some states, physician assisted suicide is legal, so here isn’t any violation of the law. This question is not easy for me because a physician which could assist in suicide should be in conflict with the Hippocratic Oath that includes basic ethical principle “Do not harm”.

The American Medical Association policy regarding euthanasia otherwise known as mercy killing or physician assisted suicide is forbidden. Euthanasia is the administration of a lethal agent by another person to a patient for the purpose of relieving the patient’s intolerable and incurable suffering. For example, there is a patient who is suffering from cancer where dying is inevitable, and nothing can be done except wait in pain. The practice is illegal in most countries. Here in the United States doctors are allowed to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients in five US states. Still, doctors are not allowed to take direct action and give a patient a lethal injection. However, they are able to withhold treatment in order

Personally, I see physician assisted suicide as a possibility for people who are terminally ill, or have an incurable disease to have the right to choose the time and the means of their own death. However, what role should mental health professionals assume in end-of-life decisions?

A schizophrenic and a survivor, Jade’s family was brutally murdered in front of her as a child before she was raped by the same mobsters who her father had owed money to. She was left wandering alone in a grimy Taipei before being found by Henry. A computer hacker, she uses her skills to do investigative work for Henry and his various dealings.

The results showed a positive change for trained items. Despite some positive data points, no generalization to untrained actions could be confirmed. Expecting better results, the authors theorized that other underlying deficits beyond the participant’s semantic system, such as accessing the phonological forms without providing enough stimulation with the phonological form of the target action or practice in accessing the phonological form, may have limited potential improvements. However, one potential limitation in the method for determining generalization was that a list of only ten untrained items was shown every session, therefore making the naming improvements suspect to gains from exposure or perhaps embedding any naming errors since no correction was provided. The second measurement of improvement was similarly a list of only ten untrained items from the original set of items which the participant could not name, leaving the possibility that the participant may have had difficulty with those pictures, naming those or action words, or improving to a level high enough to be significantly different given the relatively small sample size. Still, a very positive result at the follow-up probes at two and six weeks indicated a sustained level of production for trained action words. Moreover, although normative data for test-retest reliability precludes determination of significance, raw scores

As SFA became increasingly recognized as a viable treatment for improving naming, research expanded to consider the therapy dosage and intensity required for therapy to be effective, generalization to untrained words, SFA’s impact on connected speech, and the maintenance of the improvements post-therapy. For example, Boyle & Coelho (1995) aimed to investigate the effects of SFA on communication effectiveness by including a social validity measure and to determine whether a large or small number of stimuli per session promote generalization more efficiently. Using black and white drawings, Boyle & Coelho (1995), provided treatment in three 60-minute sessions per week. The treatment pictures were selected from a group of 34 images which the

Similarly, theorizing that action-naming could be improved by semantic approaches used for object-name retrieval, Wambaugh & Ferguson (2007) examined the effects of a semantic feature training on retrieval of verbs for an individual with anomic aphasia with a multiple baseline study design. Using 40 black and white line drawings from the OANB as stimuli, four lists of ten verbs were matched for frequency, age of acquisition, number of syllables, familiarity, visual complexity, imageability,