Medical Ethics Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

Chen's considerations about the possibility to provide the patients with the opportunity to die at home instead of staying in the hospital.

While it is understandable that the death of the infant can be considered a severe consequence of the treatment it still falls under the 4 conditions of the principle of the double effect since it [...]

As it was implied in the Introduction, in his article, Gunderson argues in favor of the idea that it is utterly inappropriate to even consider the legalization of voluntary euthanasia, due to a number of [...]

From this, it can also be said that the law as a regulatory concept provides guidelines that define and direct how procedures in medical practices are to be conducted in a manner that is adherent [...]

The purpose of the given confidentiality policy is to guarantee that all workers of the project and its participants correctly realize the existing requirements to the disclosure of personal data and confidential information.

In the public domain, such ruling and the decision by the doctors may imply that patients do not have the right to make decisions concerning their health and the kind of treatment that they receive.

To put it in other words, the use of state policies in health decisions should depend on the extent to which they protect patients' health.

Therefore, the process of selection was based on the extent to which a particular quality contributes to my personal and professional growth.

Quality of life is the fifth principle, and it concerns the right to pursue the quality of life that people choose.

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.

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.

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.

One of the basic underpinnings is the fact that confidentiality violations can result in various issues for the patient whose well-being can be threatened, which is unacceptable for the nurse whose job is to ensure [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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

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.

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 reason this subject is chosen for analysis is that the delivery of bad news to patients has emerged as the most challenging and complex communication task that doctors have to deal with in hospitals.

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 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 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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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".

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.

The are supporters of the idea that only God has the right to take human's life, on the other hand, the sufferings of the person may be unbearable and they may ask for euthanasia to [...]

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.

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 [...]

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The final act that results in the death of the person is however usually performed by the person intending to die after the provision of information, advice and even the ways through which he or [...]

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 [...]

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 kind of relationship that healthcare professionals can have with their elderly clients can have legal and moral implications in relation to patient rights for the elderly.

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 [...]

From the case, it is noted that the Church was simply against the overreliance on technology to save life since the Pope was of the view that God might provide a natural healing and in [...]

This discussion uses the utilitarianism theory to address the issues that are related to legalization of the sale of human organs.

The motivation for this study was the prevalence of syphilis among blacks and the possibility of coming up with mass treatment of the condition.

Therefore, the failure of the company to release the data for whatever reason brings to question the commitment of the company to the safety of the people who consume their drugs.

For instance, a study carried out in the United States pointed out that 82% of all direct to consumer advertisements gave the public factual claims coupled up with reasonable arguments as to the use of [...]

The origin of racial discrimination dates back to the age when slavery used to thrive and people used to manage their issues with reference to racial considerations.

There is also involuntary PAS, where the patient does not want to die and the doctor performs the act without their knowledge. They feel that the time of active contribution to their homes and the [...]

In weighing the options concerning whether to perform an abortion and how to care for the patient, a healthcare entity must consider the legal implications, the patient's and provider's beliefs as well as the health [...]

In the matter of euthanasia, professionals ought to decide between the overall good of the dying patient and that of other stakeholders.

According to Linda, the decision of having the abortion was extremely lonely regardless of the fact that the husband supported her.

An Overview of Euthanasia The meaning of euthanasia has changed over the years from how it was originally construed to what it means to the contemporary world.

The meaning of life is the most general aspect of judging about the requirements that must be set out by laws and people's morals in regarding to the voluntary or involuntary taking of that life.

Keeping the arguments from both sides in mind, this paper reviews the current legal status and the effects of legalizing assisted suicide in the states of Oregon, Washington, and Montana with the aim of supporting [...]