Pillow Angel Ashley Essay

For this Media Project, I chose to watch an episode of a Grey’s Anatomy that contains a medical ethics dilemma. I watched Season 2 of Grey’s Anatomy, Episode 23 “Blues for Sister Someone.” In this episode, a woman asks Dr. Addison Shepherd to clandestinely tie her fallopian tubes (tubal ligation) while she gives birth to her 7th child through C-section. She does not wish to have any more children (seven is already a huge burden), but her devout Catholic husband does not allow birth control. Hence, she pleads Addison to help end her childbearing abilities (tying her tubes would be permanent birth control). She begs Dr. Shepherd to do the surgery in private so here is no medical record

Anna and Kate have came up with a bunch of reasons as to why Anna wants to be emancipated. At the age of eleven, Anna and her older brother, Jesse, go hire a lawyer to sue their parents for the rights to Anna’s body. The lawyer takes the case because he knows what it is like to live a life where you have no control of your body. The lawyer suffers from epilepsy. Anna wants to become a medically emancipated minor. The courts had never heard of such a case and there is no such term as medically emancipated, legally defined. With Anna becoming medically emancipated, it means that Sara and Brian’s parental rights have been terminated within limits. They still had to provide shelter, food, clothing, and other basics, but they could not tell her what to do medically.

They were immediately moved back to Florida to their new foster house which was not she pleasant. Their new foster home was packed to the brim full of foster kids. The conditions were terrible, and their foster parents screaming lunatics. Ashley and Luke were shortly moved out of that so called home and back to South Carolina to live with Adele. Ashley was sent back to Florida by herself this time. In Ashley’s life time she has been in 14 different foster homes. As well as talking to 44 caseworkers in only 9 years. Ashley at the age of 13, was finally adopted by this lovely

Ashley Rhodes-Courter was only three years old when she was separated from her mother. She spent the next nine years bouncing from one foster family to another. Her mother, Lorraine, was only twenty years old, and she was also too young to take responsibilities for her two children. However, Ashley grew up earning straight “A’s” in her classes; she won a world-wide Harry Potter essay contest in New York, as well as many others. She was born in South Carolina, and later was taken to her first foster family in Florida. The closest family member she was kept with was her step-brother Luke, who didn’t share the same father. Later on, when Ashley was eleven years old, she got a new step-sister, who did not share the same father as she and Luke.

From the time Anna was born, whenever Kate fell ill and needed a donor, Kate and Anna’s parents did not hesitate to use Anna’s body without asking her. Parents should not harm one child to save another. Anna decides to go to a lawyer and sue her parents for the rights of her own body. The lawyer makes an ethical decision to be a

What I really cannot understand is the punishments given to patients for “misbehaving.” For instance, if Saks said anything too crazy, such as saying she could stab someone with her plastic fork, she would immediately be placed in restraints for long hours at a time. No one in the hospital seemed genuinely interested in treating her beyond pumping her system with drugs. The New Haven hospital was similar to “the Center” that Saks went to for her drug problem as a teenager: more time was devoted to having people just “get over it” rather than hearing a patient’s problem and addressing it. Furthermore, the rules on ethics and doctor-patient confidentiality seemed to be nonexistent at that facility. They contacted her parents against her earlier wishes and even essentially pulled her out of school. Although they may have believed they were acting in her best interest, ethically they should not have been able to disclose medical information of an adult to

The example of Paul Gelsinger from Ricki Lewis’ The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It (2012) shows how a parent’s desire to help a sick child can be misguided, even though their intentions are good. Situations like Paul Gelsinger’s are important to reference when discussing human research ethics because it illustrates how ethics of care can cloud rationale or hinder thorough investigation of treatment for children. Paul’s son, Jesse Gelsinger, was a teenager who suffered from a genetic disorder called Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency also known as OTC deficiency. The disease affects the liver; individuals cannot metabolize ammonia, leading to elevated levels of the compound in the blood which can harm nervous tissue in

It is not clear whether or not the court would have stopped Ashley’s parents from modifying her body in the way they did. It seems likely that, at a minimum, the mastectomy would have been delayed until it was clear that Ashley had in fact developed large uncomfortable breasts, something that was merely speculative at the time of her surgery. It is certain, however, that imposition of limitations and process in her case would have gone a long way toward reducing the risk that the procedures caused Ashley more harm than any benefits they achieved. Obviously, time cannot be turned back for Ashley, but future cases can and should be regulated more carefully (Ouellette, 2009).

Ashley will also not be as fussy when she has menstrual cramping and does not understand why she is in pain. It will reduce Ashley’s chances of getting ovarian and breast cancer (Nancy Gibbs, 2007). The parents wrote on their blog "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love” (Nancy Gibbs, 2007). Dr. Gunther may or may not have committed suicide indirectly to this issue. The hospital was hit by ethicist and had to apologize for their movements without a court room. Luckily no chargers were pressed on either the doctor or the hospital. The pillow angel has been a hit in the media industry. As for all the support the parents have received, this group now brings awareness to the difficulties’ of raising children with severe brain damage. As a total it would be more ethical for Ashley to undergo the surgeries and live at her happiest with her devoted

The Ash Girl, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, is a spinoff of the popular folk tale Cinderella. The theatre used when we watched the performance was a proscenium arch, located in another school. Because of this, and taking into account the cast members are students of the school, I initially thought that the performance wouldn’t be perfect; people would make mistakes here and there throughout it and the special effects wouldn’t be professional. At the start of the performance, the lighting was a dark green colour. This gave an eerie atmosphere; symbolising a forest.

If you ask yourself, what would you do if you were the judges or even the biological parents, would you want to give them their child back or, would you want to take their desire to be parents again away? I agree with the court’s decision. Everyone deserve a second chance, so does her parents. Author Rushworth M. Kidder emphasize, “it asked you to test your actions by putting yourself in another’s shoes and imagining how it would feel if you were the recipient” (Kidder, 25). I do not think this is an easy decision. Based on the dilemma, her foster parent loves her as she was their own, and taking her away is against her will. Is it ethical? I think the court has made a moral decision here and assured once their decision take action, there will

There are many legal and ethical situations that healthcare providers will be faced with when providing medical treatment to either a child or an elderly adult. While there is often much discussion regarding the elderly and do not resuscitate orders, there are often times when the decisions for health care of a child may be overlooked. Some of the legal issues that may be faced by healthcare professionals are informed consent, confidentiality, reproductive services and child abuse. Patients have the right to decide what is done to their own bodies, but for children under eighteen, their parents decide for them. A major issue faced by healthcare professionals is parental refusal for treatment. Healthcare providers will be faced with many conflicting ethical and legal situations regarding refusal of a minor’s healthcare and treatment. These issues

Also the legal aspect is not clear. The decision for the treatment was not made by Ashley or an independent court; it was made by an ethic committee of the hospital. In this committee were some doctors, ethics and the lawyers of the hospital were asked about this case; but no official court and an official represent of the interests of Ashley. In this case there are some different legal aspects. First of all there are the Human Rights with the principle that personal and physical autonomy of all people with disabilities be regarded as sacrosanct. The only argument to violate this principle is, if the violation is the best for the concerning person. And with that there is the “no damage rule of medical

Hocus pocus in a dark castle, black cats over the graveyards, and two men writing gothic literature. Characteristics of gothic literature include ruined sinister buildings, dungeons, underground passages, crypts, and catacombs which in modern houses become spooky basements or attics. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, the authors use spooky setting, fantastic plot, grotesque characters and use of the supernatural as elements of gothic literatrure.

parenting have their advantages and disadvantages. There are ethical and unethical issues when it comes