Medical Ethics Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

The aim of the end of life care is to ensure that the dying person encounters the least discomfort during the dying process.

Sommerville is a renowned Samuel Gale Professor of Law at the McGill University in Montreal, the Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Center for Medicine, Ethics, and Law. The [...]

Additionally, the company can provide purchasers of equipment with materials related to the issue and call for cooperative work on the issue if possible.

The study started in 1929 when USPHS investigated the high incidence of syphilis in the rural areas of the South of the USA and possibilities for its mass treatment.

One of the reasons why women of different ages decide to terminate their pregnancy is any genetic disease of the fetus and the risk of having an unhealthy child.

The thesis statement for this paper is: Since the legalization of the practice has not led to safer and quality abortion, there is need to tackle the barriers, obstacles, and cultural gaps that make the [...]

The utilitarian ethical stance raises the issue of paternalism when taking into account the situation in which a greater power to decide in favor of or against vaccination is given to the healthcare institution.

Doctors who participated in the trial argued that the baby was stillborn because of the effects of the cocaine the mother consumed during pregnancy.

From this perspective, it is unethical to decide in favor of an end-of-life procedure on the condition that there are at least minimal chances for a patient's survival.

One of the considerations in the ethical dilemma of maintaining or withdrawing life support of a patient in MCS/PVS is the amount of resources that a medical facility spends on AHN.

Although the cells were "omnipresent", there was not much information about Henrietta by the 2000s: the majority of sources referred to Helen Lane, and the information about the cause and the time of the woman's [...]

The day when Martin Shkreli, the current CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, increased the price tag of the drug used in the treatment of HIV by 5000% was questioned by everyone in the US.

On the one hand, it is wrong to end someone's life with the help of special medical preparations because it contradicts the idea of natural law and the necessity of nature to make a final [...]

In the aspect of medical intervention, parents have the responsibility of making decisions, which promote the growth and development of their newborns.

Using the principles of health care, the professionals went by the wishes of the patient's independence of believing her religious teachings.

Different leadership styles suit the dynamic nature of the health care industry, thus the need to have a clear description of the moral compass for various professionals.

In a show of negative power and privilege, the scientific community only called Henrietta's family after her death, if there was an issue to do with the HeLa cells. The exploitation of Henrietta's family was [...]

She had to choose whether to hide the information, which she had received from a cancer patient and which was relevant to the treatment, from other nurses and doctors or to reveal it despite the [...]

This leads to the historical argument that voluntary euthanasia is often the beginning of a slippery slope that gives rise to unintentional euthanasia and the murder of people who are unwanted in society.

Therefore, the relatives of patients with an ability to make decisions are obligated to respect their decisions, as well as that of health care professionals that effect such decisions on behalf of those lacking the [...]

The main issue that led to filing of the case in court was to determine if the doctor was informed to use surgical mesh in the patient surgery procedure, as well as to know whether [...]

It then uses this data to address not only the community but also the medical professionals concerning the general health conditions of the community from time to time.

Instead of thinking why something bad or wrong happens, it is necessary to understand how to inform people about a medical error and how to get prepared for a medical error disclosure.

Consequently, the primary goal of the paper is to discover the freedoms of a patient, specifically, the right to die with the help of a controversial and confusing case of Mrs.

As mentioned earlier, one of the core aspects of the various debates surrounding the right to life is the creation and implementation of policies that would allow life to be taken away.

The majority of the challenges in the healthcare system are as a result of untrue medical messaging. In the absence of academic integrity norms, the sustenance and stability in the academic system cannot be maintained.

The practitioner was aware that discussing the issue with the mother could be beneficial to the lady, and may help her address the underlying causes.

Thus, analyzing the application of black-box anthropology for establishing the relationship between healthcare providers and their patients, it can be stated that the principle of distancing to show respect for the patient's privacy as the [...]

In Australia, it is estimated that about 18,000 medical deaths are a result of medical errors and in Canada, it is estimated that about 9,000 to 24,000 patients die of preventable medical errors annually.

One of them is the absence of legal mechanisms protecting the rights of the subjects3. This issue is of the crucial importance to the organizations engaged in medical trials.

In general, ethics1 encompasses the theories and principles of particular values as well as the justifications and perceptions of these values.

Also, it considers the number of people involved in that an action should produce more pleasure over pain to the majority of the population and not the minority.

The main issue is whether it is necessary to disclose the information to the patient. The question is whether Ron has the moral obligation to disclose the information to the patient or not.

Comprehensively, it is imperative to understand the aspects of research and other relevant provisions in the entire contexts. While employing the concept of risk-benefit, it is important to stress that the researcher should often differentiate [...]

Growing increasingly important with the introduction of new healthcare tools for assisting elderly people and the reconsideration of the process of healthcare provision to the latter, the end of life dilemma poses a rather tricky [...]

The complexity and bureaucracy that comes with medical systems take up the greater share of the blame, and healthcare systems choose to allow the various organizations to device their mechanisms of dealing with the problem.

The author of the book, Rebecca Skloot, presents the life of a real-life woman, as well as the influence of poverty, race, and science on medical research.

This stems from the belief that man was made in God's image, and that God is the ultimate preserver of life1.

To be more exact, the problem viewed in the case study stemmed from the fact that the interests of the commercial partner and the medical practice of the corresponding healthcare facility turned out to be [...]

In addition, the physicians must consider the futility of the intervention in cases where the probability of improving the quality of life is low.

In order to grasp the gist of the deliberations in this essay, it is important to first apprehend what the term euthanasia means and bring this meaning in the context of this essay.

Proponents of PAS also argue that the constitution should grant individuals the right to PAS in the same way it provides the right to abortion, marriage, refusal of life-saving treatment, and procreation.

The issue of morality is one of the things that have to be mentioned when discussing the concept of euthanasia. In this instance, both the patient and the doctor know that there is no cure [...]

It is imperative for healthcare workers to have a rudimentary understanding of Jehovah's Witnesses philosophy regarding blood transfusion to be proactive in their care management.

When it was attempted to apply the results of the study, the identified stages, to the moral development of women, it was found out that these stages did not describe their moral development of females [...]

The fact that the minority of countries and only several states in the US accept euthanasia proves that today people are still not ready to accept it as a mercy.

However, there is the need to distinguish between the right of access to treatment and the respect of autonomy to reject treatment.

The rise in demand for organs for transplant and the scarcity of organs to transplant have led to the rise of the organ trade with healthy persons putting up their organs for sale due to [...]

The association seems to recognize the significance of updating information and it encourages the readers of the Code to check the website for new information on the topic.

The interviewee outlined the major strategies used to handle ethical dilemmas in the healthcare facility. The supervisor will be required to assess the impact of the ethical or legal dilemma.

The topic in question was chosen due to the obvious conflict between the interests of the patient and the population, in general, which medical ethics supposedly protects, and the interests of the provider, who is [...]

The case of Terri Schiavo is an example of the burden the lack of Will puts on the family of the testator.

The main aim is to reduce the lifetime of a patient who is terminally ill. There is a deep mistrust of the motivations that fuel euthanasia.

Moreover, in the twelfth century, another Arabic physician, Avenzoar dissected animals and established animal testing experiment in testing surgical processes prior to their application to man. Trevan in 1927 to evaluate the effectiveness of digitalis [...]

The government should also support these heroes in order to achieve their goals in life. The practice should also be legal in order to avoid every unnecessary amputation.

In general, there is little evidence from the parents to proof that the girl wanted to have children and whether she wanted to have children after her death.

Although the concerns of the opponents of using embryonic stem-cell are genuine, it is essential to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the research before grading the process as unethical.

For the researcher to address the ethical issue raised and probably continue with the study, there is a need for a bit of modification to be done especially in study design.

The general principles require psychologists to be aware of their limitations and offer only those services they are qualified to provide.

In twentieth century, various agencies erupted to address the practice of euthanasia such as Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Society in 1935, which was advocating for its legalization in London and the National Society for the Legalization [...]

I am going to defend that a fetus is a human being from the time of conception and thus deserves respect and should be provided help until it comes out of the womb of the [...]

Abortion is the choice of a woman who bears the child and any decision to terminate the pregnancy by a woman is in a way a suicide she commits even to her 'self'.

The major ethical issues raised by the use of these devices include the safety of the interventions, and possible alterations of the identity and personality of the subjects.

They have shown reduction by performing the experiments in a way that will reduce the number of animals, the discomfort they may feel and the pain.

It is implied that the healthcare professionals should be totally motivated to participate in the project as it is their duty to seek for constant improvement of their knowledge and skills.

Z and talking to her face to face, he highlighted the benefits and risks of the surgery in writing form. In this case, the surgeon did not ascertain the clinical adverse effects of the surgery [...]

This ensures that the beneficiaries own the entire process of the study, project or policy and that they give their consent for the study to advance.

Compared to Fero et al.'s key CT skills of autonomous interventions, clinical judgment, and analysis and interpretation of problems, Robert and Petersen identify risk estimation, and analysis and evaluation of diagnosis as the key aspects [...]

According to the authors of the study, death is defined as, "the irreversible loss of the integrated and coordinated life of the person as a single living organism".

At the outset, genetic manipulation might be important to many parents as it trims down the prospects of grave infections in the newborn babies. The disadvantages of parents going for genetic manipulation seem to outweigh [...]

In the case of the Medicaid system, the states that decided to maintain their 'legacy' systems benefited more than those states that decided to create a new system.

In the mental health profession, codes of ethics mainly address professional responsibilities, handling of clients, storage of clients' information, and the relationships that should exist between the clients and the mental health workers.

Emotional support is also concerned with the kind of information given to patients and how the information is conveyed. It is equally significant to underscore the role of information in handling breast cancer patients immediately [...]

Another addendum to the controversy on the legality of existence of ethics is the diversification of the public health ethics into two major ideologies, the professional ethics and the applied ethics.

Even without the socialization process, it is arguably possible for a female to be born in a male body and vice versa as indicated by Dreger On a biological perspective however, a third angle into [...]

Euthanasia or mercy killing as it is informally referred is the act of ending a person life if it is deemed to be the only way to help a person get out of their suffering.

Before settling down on the conclusion of the need to adopt the practice of euthanasia in our state, it is important to visit some basic aspects that are very key in the issue of euthanasia.

Pharmaceutical companies depend on doctors to make sales of their drugs by frequent prescriptions of their drugs to the patients. This means that the doctors may make a given prescriptions to their patients so as [...]

Based on the arguments presented in this discussion, it suffices to mention that withdrawing or withholding of nutrition and hydration remains a controversial issue.

To reduce the negative effects of the ethical challenges for nurses and to follow the interests of the patients, it is significant to use the principles fixed in the Position Statement of ARN on the [...]

As such, strikes offer nurses the opportunity to improve their working conditions as well as nursing care for patients and the local community.

For instances, the combined efforts of the practitioners resulted into improvement in medical education, an organization in the field especially with the adoption of code of ethics, regulation of the licensure in the area, stigmatization [...]

This choice can also "snowball" into a political event if the government steps in to control the access to abortion, and the "terms" involved and required when terminating a pregnancy.

In this case, however, the mother wants to procure an abortion due to the fact that the fetus is female. Among the few benefits that may accrue to procuring an abortion in this case is [...]

The World Health Organization defines Genetic Testing as "DNA analysis to determine the carrier status of an individual; to diagnose a present disease in the individual; or to determine the individual's genetic predisposition to developing [...]

As the number of studies increases, the results, effects and outcomes of patient-provider communication, there is still a much research to be done in the field.

To begin with, medical ethics must focus on the rights of the patient in light of the medical condition the patient is suffering from.

This paper states that medical errors have a number of underlying causes, including the fallibility of medical personnel, uncertainty of medical knowledge and imperfection of organizational systems, and pays special attention to the negative outcomes [...]

One of the strongest and captivating essays in this book is the one by Edmund Pellegrino, "The Necessity, Promise, and Dangers of Human Experimentation", because the author touches upon different aspects to analyze one and [...]

If the terminally ill parent focuses on his right and desire to die because the disease makes his life meaningless, it is possible to try to shift the parent's attention from the quality-of-life perspective to [...]

This research focused on the view of the society and professionals in this field, and it has concluded that it is ethical to commercialize organ transplant as a way of helping those suffering from defective [...]

Secondly, proponents of the practice argue that development of advanced techniques to counter the need for death of the donors is the key to a healthy process of organ and tissue transplant.

In Canada, The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors concerned with environmental public health is the only body that usually regulates and outlines the ethical conduct of health professionals in Canada.

4 Despite the contradictions and ethical concerns, the physicians categorically stated that the sole aim of the operations is to give the babies an identity that is "acceptable" in the society and to save them [...]

The aim of the informed consent is to ensure that research subjects understand the process, benefits, and risks associated with the study.

It also includes a detailed discussion on how the general ethical considerations are supposed to be incorporated in medical practices in order to foster decisions that have the best impacts on both the decision makers [...]

The objective of this paper is that of providing an overview of the most important ethical practices in addition to a number of detailed examples of moral concerns that might occur on a daily basis [...]

The case involves biomedical ethics where the doctors involved had to decide on whether to violate the original request by patient, John R, that he should not be resuscitated in case he was taken to [...]

In the meantime the medication and the doctors are not trivial anymore in stopping the pain and the victim despite all the sufferings, he or she is in a vegetative state and there is nothing [...]

The role of parents and doctors in the youths' decision should be in informing teenagers about the consequences of their decisions be means of drawing the future outcome from the medical perspective, trying to apply [...]

In the case of the UAE malpractice is often the result of lack of knowledge and experience. Finally, Liuzzo also notes that liability of health care professionals can encourage the latter to conduct properly.

The logic behind this argument is to better protect the health of the child bearer than risk both the life of the unborn child as well as that of the mother.

Virtue ethics is a framework that focuses on the personality of the ethical agent as opposed to the suitability of the act. Ethically, it is pleasing to fund a policy aiming at improving the health [...]

In its turn, this points out to the fact that, in the field of health care, the notion of medicinal compassion organically derives out of the notion of scientific progress, and not out of the [...]

The major reason for such "devotion" to animal testing can be explained by the fact that alternative sources of testing are insufficient and too inaccurate to replace conventional way of testing.

If laws are passed permitting assisted suicide, relatives of sick individuals may even urge them to seek suicide to end the suffering and pain.

The particular ethical principles that are inherent in this case include the following: Justice: the doctor, in this case, feels a strong sense of duty to serve the patient, though the patient cannot clearly satisfy [...]

It is imperative to note that for both the opponents and proponents of euthanasia, the quality of life is usually the focal point, even though there is no agreement on the criteria of defining quality [...]

These issues include the scope or the extent to which parents have authority over their children, autonomy for any of children to make their own decisions, and the extent to which state should be allowed [...]

Another approach that the industry should embark on is have a body that harmonizes the cost of medication by experts or professionals in different facilities; when such an intervention is made, patients will know the [...]

The patient will be in a position to know whether the physician is equal and up to the task. This makes the patients to actively participate in healthcare experience.

The listener shares the information with the speaker and should not make a prejudgment In the therapeutic setting, the therapist is required to listen to the victim as the victim narrates or expresses his feelings [...]

The god of every individual should be the only one to bring death to a person and no person should have the authority to accept dying no matter the situation he/she is in.

Hence, if a person consciously consents to die, there are no chances for recovery, and killing is the only way to deprive a patient from pain and suffering, euthanasia can be regarded as voluntary.

According to Biber, the head of the clinical research assured fellow researchers that, "...everyone is agreed that the proper procedure is the continuance of the observation of the Negro men used in the study with [...]

Res ipsa loquitur Translated as "the case that speaks for itself," the given term denotes the case in healthcare the key causes of which can be learned based on the assessment of the results.

At the given point, it will be logical to ask, though, whether it is only the physician to be responsible for the termination of relationships with the patient.

The effects of war in the 20th century saw the widening of the scale of reconstructive surgery due to the increase in the number of people with intense injuries that required intense reconstructive practices.

When seeking the consent, the physician should not release every piece of information about the cure of the disease to the patient.

Euthanasia, which is equivalent to the termination of life, can be equated to a total breach of the principle of the sacredness of life, as well as the breach of the legal right of human [...]