Ethical Dilemmas In Health Care
Dilemmas are an everyday thing. We all have been in a situation where we have to choose between two things. What if you were in a situation where you had to make a decision between two options that are right and two options that are wrong? Many parents are placed in that tragic situation were deciding what option to choose is devastating. Death at any age is traumatic, however I believe it is specially hard when it involves children. It is especially challenging because they cannot make their own decisions and a multidimensional approach is needed. That approach needs to be made done by multiple parties. There needs to be a strong working alliance established between the health care team and the pediatric patient's family. If a strong bond
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The family was informed that nothing more could be done. One parent wanted to keep their child with no brain functioning alive and wanted Doctors to do “everything” possible. The other parent understood that their child would not wake up and would never have a good quality of life again, so he decided it was best to let him go. However, the medical staff does not have the right to refuse a continued treatment requested by a parent. Therefore, in this situation the healthcare team ensured that both of the parents were informed about the benefits and risks of medical treatment. They also identified the facts and values that pertained to this situation including culture and religion. The healthcare team were able to facilitate the discussion and a solution to this issue. When making a decision, the patient’s wishes should always be considered but his becomes specially hard when dealing with a 5 year old child. In this case one parent believed that if they stopped treatment, they had given up on their child. That is where the healthcare team came in and explained that there was no cure and by transitioning him to palliative care was as if she was still fighting for him. She would be able to make sure that he was not suffering and was pain free. She had to make a decision between death and “artificial” life. In this ethical dilemma it was of vital importance for the team to seek
The family was informed that nothing more could be done. One parent wanted to keep their child with no brain functioning alive and wanted Doctors to do “everything” possible. The other parent understood that their child would not wake up and would never have a good quality of life again, so he decided it was best to let him go. However, the medical staff does not have the right to refuse a continued treatment requested by a parent. Therefore, in this situation the healthcare team ensured that both of the parents were informed about the benefits and risks of medical treatment. They also identified the facts and values that pertained to this situation including culture and religion. The healthcare team were able to facilitate the discussion and a solution to this issue. When making a decision, the patient’s wishes should always be considered but his becomes specially hard when dealing with a 5 year old child. In this case one parent believed that if they stopped treatment, they had given up on their child. That is where the healthcare team came in and explained that there was no cure and by transitioning him to palliative care was as if she was still fighting for him. She would be able to make sure that he was not suffering and was pain free. She had to make a decision between death and “artificial” life. In this ethical dilemma it was of vital importance for the team to seek