Self-Critique

Before convicts are executed, it is a requirement by the law that they be treated to ensure that they are not only physically fit but also healthy. I am convinced that all types of prescription are ought to cure people, not readying them to experience death through statutory execution, whether one is on death row or not. It is the duty of every doctor under the law to ensure that each convict is healthy before the government can deprive his or her life. The law is unethical since it does not recognize that the duties of physicians are to render support to the people, save individuals’ lives as well as help individuals enhance the standard of their lives. When physicians graduate from their processional training, they vow on oath to assist in

The role of a physician participating in an execution does not actually consist of injecting the prisoner with the lethal dose of medications. The role for a physicians during an execution is to: start an intravenous line, maintain the intravenous line, and to overall prevent any medical mistakes that could cause pain to the prisoners. In recent times, it is prohibited for physicians to participate in executions due to the American Medical Association. Physicians are able to attend these executions but they are to have very limited input. For the physicians that do go against the AMA and have some type of role in an execution always wish to remain anonymous.

During my time volunteering at this event, I aided in the planning of an event focusing on the myths of vaccines while identifying subunits on a viral model. We then carried out this activity to family and friends of all ages.

The main reason that this author thinks that doctors should be allowed to participate in executions is because there is a lot that can go wrong with injections. In his own words, he says “Participating in executions does not make the doctor the executioner, just as providing comfort care to a terminally ill patient does not make the doctor the bearer of the disease.” This on its own would not make his argument very strong. It is simply his own opinion. However, then he adds evidence that a lot can go wrong. He explains “The execution procedure, therefore, requires the insertion of catheters, controlled injection of lethal drugs and monitoring of a prisoner’s vital signs to confirm death. This makes it important that a doctor be present to assist in some capacity with the killing.” He also gives an example of an instance where an injection procedure went wrong. “A lot can go wrong during lethal injections. In 2014 in Oklahoma, to cite just one gruesome example, a 38-year-old convicted murderer named Clayton Lockett writhed in pain at his execution, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow, according to witnesses, after a botched injection.” In this instance, there was a doctor present, but it shows that many things can go wrong. It also shows that if there were no doctors present, a lot of things would go wrong more often. While I believe the author did a good job of

My first draft of our assignment, Essay One: Textual Analysis of a New Mexican Mural, was interesting. I don’t particularly see things that are not obvious. It pushed me to look at something and find a deeper meaning. That was challenging for me. After reading my first draft of that assignment, I see I was not very organized. My thesis was not very strong or clear. I repeated myself several times within the body when using logos. I didn’t try to relate my audience using ethos at all, and tried to convince my audience using pathos a bit but didn’t make strong arguments to support my claims.

As if being a parent can be stressful enough, vaccines for a parent can be even more stressful. Immunizations are defined by many experts and providers to be a process of boosting an individual’s immune system against disease by introduction of the disease in a small dose. Immunizations work by the process of introducing immunological memories that respond to past encounters (Nuorti & Whitney, 2010). This teaching plan will follow a vaccination schedule from infancy to adulthood and explain the reasons a parent should immunize their children.

The perception of a white coat healer to turn to the black coat killer is very disturbing because the soothing hands should never convert into those that are delivering the pains. The medical personnel is being used by certain states to medicalize slaughter of prisoners so they could be in a position to be more pleasing to the public's eyes. Consequently, without the medical personnel, the death penalty would look as “cruel and unusual punishment.” The practitioners are used as tools to make capital punishment looks legal that infringe the liberties and moral standards which undervalues a doctor's’ purpose that is to live by the Code of Medical Ethics. The spirit of the Hippocratic Oath is that “a physician, as a member of a profession, is

One of the strengths of this article is that the author encourages research before making a decision in regards to immunization.

have impacted the medical and scientific field; to such a degree, that people’s lives are now

According to a different article from the New England Journal of Medicine “The Supreme Court did not and cannot solve this medical-ethics problem for America's physicians. State legislatures continue to have the authority under the Constitution to determine whether or not to require executions by lethal injection, and physicians continue to have the legal freedom to determine whether placing their medical skills at the service of the state to execute condemned prisoners is consistent with medical ethics. In this regard, physicians could again come to the rescue of the law by helping corrections officials make executions by lethal injection less risky, less cruel, and more medicalized, routinized, and sanitized” (Annas, 2008, p 1517).

The introduction of this book quickly summarizes the good things that have come from immunizations so far, such as;

Vaccinations hold a long term history throughout the world with a clear reason for their enduring existence. Paul Offit and Charlotte Moser claim in their book, Vaccines & Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction, “vaccines provide the immunity that comes from natural infection without the consequences of natural infection.” They believe looking at the source and examining the origins of vaccines help people better understand their purpose and use. The late 1700s introduced the first vaccine by physician Edward Jenner attempting to cure smallpox (Offit

Throughout history, vaccinations have become better to where they are safer for the human body. The first child vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner (1749–1823) who discovered a vaccine against smallpox. According to a study at the Pediatric Academic Society, child vaccinations have prevented about 10.5 million cases of infectious disease and have saved about 33,000 lives per year since they were implemented. According to Maurice Hilleman, we can expect our next deadly influenza pandemic to strike us in 2025; it will be from the same strain of virus that infected millions in 1889 and 1957. I really liked learning how Hilleman and other scientists made the vaccines. When Hilleman developed the mumps vaccine in 1963. When Hilleman injected the weakened virus into experimental children, they developed mumps antibodies but didn't get sick. (Offit) Over the years, vaccine development has become more "scientific" and less crude. The ability to vaccinate children to prevent disease is, without a doubt, one of the greatest medical

Vaccinations are one of the studies that will never die and will continue to shock people. The first vaccine was invented by an English scientist, Edward Jenner in the late eighteenth century. He was helping solve a case of the smallpox that was running through a little boy (“Vaccine Debate”, 1). It was a success and that is when the first vaccine was invented. Today, we have learned more and more about these type of vaccines. We have created some of the most prestigious needles to help cure different viruses. We are able to live longer with these immunizations and are able to help create a better living environment.

Criticism can be a hard thing for anyone to take. I feel that there are three things that make it hard for people; failing, open wounds, and the person doing the criticizing. For myself, I think that rational and analytical listening are two things that I need to integrate to improve my ability to respond more constructively to criticism. There are two strategies that I use to give criticism; straight to the point, and “good-bad-good”.