The Inaptitude Of Dr. Moe

Authors Note: This paper is being submitted on the 18th of March 2013 for the winter semester of Medical Law and Ethics section 05.

When Henrietta was at John Hopkins receiving her cancer treatment a doctor by the name of TeLinde took a sample of Henrietta’s cervix without her knowledge or consent. “But first-though no one had told Henrietta that Telinde was collecting sample or asked she wanted to be a donor-Wharton picked up a sharp knife and shaved two dime-sized pieces of tissue from Henritta’s cervix: one from her tumor, and one from the healthy cervical tissue nearby. Then he placed the sample in a glass dish” (Skloot, 2010, 33). At the time of the treatment Henrietta was unconscious and completely unable to accept or reject the biopsy (Skloot, 2010, 33). Acquiring proper consent from an individual is an ongoing process and needs to be asked for at every stage of a study with human subjects. The basic

The process of consent should apply not only to surgical procedures but all clinical procedures and examinations which involve any form of touching. This must not mean more forms: it means more communication. As part of the process of obtaining consent, except when they have indicated otherwise, patients should be given sufficient information about what is to take place, the risks, uncertainties, and possible negative consequences of the proposed treatment, about any alternatives and about the likely outcome, to enable them to make a choice about how to proceed.”5

B) According to the “ Journal of Medical Ethics” it may not be that simple to assist with

In this assignment you will practice what you have learned in chapters 5 and 7 in the Medical Law and Ethics textbook:

In this paper, I will focus on the ethical issues of informed consent and the cultural mindsets of doctors and scientists during this time period.

Typically people seek medical attention because they know they are able to trust the provider handling their care. If this trust between the doctor and the patient is broken, the patient will more than likely search elsewhere for the help he needs. This issue of trust and informed consent is shown in many instances in the novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Informed consent is shown throughout the novel; however, it is strongly portrayed with the relationship between doctor and patient.

a) Select three of the patients’ right below a. Rights to choose a GP b. Rights to hospital treatment c. Rights to refuse treatment d. Rights to opt out of summary care recordsExamine their meaning as applicable to the NHS Constitution or alternative national guidelines………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

Ethics, in our society, are the moral principles that govern our behavior, dictating what is right from wrong. The specifics of ethics changes as values in our society change and evolve. This occurs in Rebecca Skloots book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One major reoccurring theme in the book is the lack of informed consent and autonomy. Fortunately, now there are safeguards which protect human rights in regard to health care and research. The Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, now part of the Department of Health and Human Services, created The Belmont Report, which is one such safeguard establishing principles for all human research (USDHHS, 1979). This paper will discuss the ethical issue of informed consent within The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the disregard to parts of the Belmont Report, as well as compare the role of the nurse in charge of Henrietta’s care versus the standards of care set for modern nurses.

Dr. Gray was a physician who was taking care of one of his partner’s patients while the partner, Dr. Leavitt, was away. One morning a sixty-year-old man who was a previous patient of Dr. Leavitt, Mr. Karnofsky, came in to the office wheezing and coughing. After the description of all of Mr. Karnofsky’s symptoms, Dr. Gray sent him for an x-ray, which revealed cancer. Dr. Gray had not seen any notes in the patient’s chart of anything previously abnormal, but according to the radiologist who took the x-ray, a previous x-ray eighteen months before had found a lung nodule in the same lung that currently showed cancer. The radiology section of Mr. Karnofsky’s chart did hold of record of the nodule and the recommendation for repeat x-rays, but Dr. Leavitt had ignored or not seen them and had not told the patient. The

The main focus of this assignment is to examine the ethical, legal and professional frameworks, along with interprofessional collaboration in the provision of postoperative care to a gentleman who was refusing observations and how this influences and shapes professional practice.

The two cases show that, although the doctors using different ethical approach, they may end up making the same

The doctor and his patient portray a troubled encounter that is subject to discussion. This short story reflects real or plausible issues comparable in real life. One example of such an event in Brooklyn when a construction worker filed a lawsuit against a hospital for subjecting him to a rectal exam against his wishes. According to his lawyer, the man begged,”please don’t do that’’ as he was held down, and he punched one of the doctors before being sedated and examined without consent. As a result the man allegedly developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the experience.(Tsai,1) Given to the poor man’s circumstance and how the medical professionals treated him, you can now see how unfit doctors can be to their own patients.

Within healthcare, practitioners often have to make difficult decisions regarding the care of their patients. This could be to do with giving or withdrawing treatment, or as simple as sharing risk information (Glover, 1997). Ultimately, the practitioner must be able to rationalise any decision they have made (Morrison, 2009). With this in mind, the following assignment will draw upon an ethical dilemma and explore how theoretical perspectives can be utilised within the decision making process. Therefore it will also be pertinent to draw upon the law, and how this influences actions within health care. To facilitate this discussion, I will identify a scenario from practice that

In medicine one of the things every patient is entitled to, no matter what, is their privacy. Since ancient times the privacy between a doctor and a patient has been somewhat of sacred thing. The patient has the right to release their health information to whomever they please. Even for doctors to access a patient’s medical history there has to be consent from the patient. In Mair’s article she reports about the case PD v Harvey in which PD upon asking for her future husband’s (FH) HIV test results was denied access because of lack of consent from FH. FH because of his right to confidentiality, despite having the disease, was able to lie and forge a pathology report which reported his HIV status as negative and in turn PD was lead to believe that FH actually received a negative result. If PD had been allowed the right to view the positive result or maybe even if the doctors would have taken into consideration her well-being PD could have avoided being infected (2009). Before testing a patient for HIV/AIDS a doctor should consult the patient in this consultation the patient should be educated about the disease, the testing process, and actions to be taken upon a positive result, including disclosure to sexual