1. The clinical formula of Equal was not metabolized because it has no sugar. Splenda is actually derived from sugar so the results would be different.…
In the article “What's the Difference between Terry and Terri?” the author Terry Jeffery links the fates and medical condition of three individuals, Terri Schiavo, Terry Wallace and Donald Herbert. These three people each had a traumatic brain injury, and they each were in a compromised medical state for many years. Two of the patients had a miraculous recovery from their brain injury, and Terri Schiavo and her parents were not given the chance of a miraculous recovery.…
2. When we think about doctors and nurses in the health care profession our hope for us or a loved one is to receive the best care as possible. In health care we encounter many providers who have different views and attitudes toward patients. Professor Vivian Bearing is a well-respected 17th Century English poetry scholar. She is told that she has stage four metastatic ovarian cancer, by a fellow college Dr. Harvey Kelekian; who has asked Vivian for research purposes if she would be willing to undergo an aggressive 8 month chemo treatment. In the play/movie Wit, we quickly see the differences between the two health care professionals; one is a former student of Professor Bearings, Dr. Jason Posner who is Dr. Kelekian’s lead research fellow,…
1. What is J. M. Smucker Company’s corporate strategy? What common strategy elements are shared across its brands? Did it make sense for Smucker to expand its business lineup beyond jams, jellies, and preserves? Why or why not?…
An analysis of Robert Schwartz “Autonomy, Futility, and the Limits of Medicine” reveals that physicians are not required to give patients treatment that has been proven to be effective, and they are not morally obligated to provide treatment that is not in-line with practice of medicine. Schwartz explains although our autonomy is respected, there are limitations on our request.…
1. The abuses at Bainbridge Hospital reflected a broken system at that time. Any person who was deemed untreatable was put into a “garden”- where people were treated like flowers that were simply “watered” and “fed” every day. The attitude of the people who worked at the institution was of people who had accepted the system’s failures as a way of life; they did not strive for change, they simply “went with the flow.” Dr. Sayer introduces a number of attitudes that can be seen in modern care facilities. For example, his unfailing persistence in not giving up on patients who he believed had a chance at life. These patients had been immobile for decades, with countless people telling him that they would never get better. By believing in their cognizance and their persistent awareness of their surroundings, Dr. Sayer creates the hospital environment of today, punctuated with the idea that all patients should have the chance to have the best chance in life. He never gave up hope. However, Dr. Sayer also faced many different obstacles in attempting to treat his patients. For example, he needed to first overcome the mockery of his fellow coworkers. The doctors and nurses who worked with him did not understand his desires to pursue what seemed like a meaningless waste of time. However, in doing so, he gave life back to people who would have otherwise been trapped forever, in a state of permanent limbo. Later, he also faced the crisis of dosage with his “patient zero”, Leonard. Would he cross the line and illegally dose Leonard without the consent of the pharmacist? In doing so, he achieved success. However, he had to do so by compromising the laws set by society. Moreover, he had to muster funding for the drug for all the patients that had been affected at the institution. He could have given up after the head of the hospital told him that it was simply too much money, but he persisted in his efforts and was rewarded with enough funding for…
The Reconstruction era, when former Confederate states were integrated back into the Union, followed the end of the brutal and transformative Civil War. Between 1865 and 1877, President Lincoln was assassinated and President Johnson came to power with conflicting opinions resulting in his impeachment, the Constitution underwent major revision with three amendments added to it, there were many efforts to solidify Union control and create equality in the defeated South, however, this ignited a fierce backlash as various terrorist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, engaged in a violent battle to maintain a pre-Civil War society of white power and African American enslavement. Many claimed that “although the North won the Civil War, the South…
A. It seems that recently, the healthcare system has been placing labels on the values of lives. Doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are separating patients on the sole bases of their finances. In these situations, individuals with health insurance are receiving priority care over those without health insurance. Doctors and hospitals are increasing waiting times of those without insurance, to take advantage of those with insurance. In addition to doubled-waiting times, these uninsured patients are even forced to take lower grades of medication. This isn’t only unfair, but inhumane, displaying the belief that these charity care patients’ lives aren’t as valuable as those with insurance. These actions seem ironic in a nation that believes in equal rights. Placing a price or level of importance on a human being’s life is heartless, greedy, and hypocritical. To reckon the significance of a person’s life due to their ability to pay hospital their medical bills…(to be continued).…
* Lewis, J. (2007, January 6). The moral line in medicine shifts once again. The Independent, p. 37. (ProQuest Document ID 311096455).…
The first paradigm may refer to a person, families or a social group who are involved in the nursing. Individuals cannot be thought of exclusively without the consideration of their families and communities that surround them. The person comes to define him/herself by the way one views oneself in interaction with their social group. A nurse’s care must extend beyond the patient and must involve the patients entire support network. The nurse must be mindful of the person’s subjective experiences about wellness, beliefs, values and personal preferences and should involve the person in decisions affecting his/her treatment and recovery. Therefore the person has a more proactive role and is in control of their own wellbeing and their choices are considered and respected by the nurse. This greatly influences the way nurses approach people throughout their giving of care. Without proper communication, taking into consideration the wishes of the…
But Nancy Mairs children and husband are the opposite because they are supportive of her mentally and physically by doing the house chores and acknowledging her struggles like when she would get frustrated and shout “I am so sick of being crippled!” ,and her daughter would say “there now, do you feel better?” Which surprisingly does make her feel better maybe because venting her frustration to someone helps her cope with MS?…
I agree with the author, I would much prefer to be able to laugh and use positive feelings and a strong mind set to heal and recover from illness, instead of lying in a hospital bed with needles poking me everywhere and having my blood drawn every few hours or so. I think this would personally,…
In past societies, healers were deemed to be the most genuine and heart-filled people in their villages, and all that they wanted to do was help make their people better, without any reward necessary. But in today’s society, our healers or so to speak doctors want nothing more than money before and money after our desired healings. Then when people come in with just the littlest of an illness, they give that person a prescription for a certain medicine, that we have no idea what it actually pertains to, and yet they take it anyway in hopes that it will cure them as soon as possible.…
The idea of helping those experiencing illness was still enticing to me, but I also knew that I wanted to be a lawyer. I didn’t feel that I could adequately repay what had been done for me if I was a lawyer, and I expressed that to my mother. She responded that if weren’t for lawyers, the surgeons would not have been able to save my life. I thought that I had known the full story behind my heart operation, but at nineteen years old, my mom told me a much different side to the story. The health insurance company at the last second decided not to cover the heart surgery. The cost of the surgery was seventy-five thousand dollars, and as middle-class people who had just spent their entire savings on a house, there was no way they could afford the surgery. They not only had to worry if I would be healthy post-operation but also now had a battle to fight with the insurance company. To our luck, a lawyer stepped in and took on the case pro-bono, and he was able to get the procedure covered. I was shocked – a lawyer had been behind the scenes of this event in my life, ensuring that my family and I were treated justly in the midst of that horrible time. They made it so that my parents could choose for me to live and be healthy without taking on a humongous debt for making the choice to save my…
The rise in autonomy can be seen as a social reaction to a “paternalistic” tradition within healthcare. Never-the-less there are conflicts between autonomy and beneficence when patients disagree with the recommendations that health care professionals believe are in the patients best interest. In the case of a patients interest conflicting with the patients welfare, many different societies would handle in a variety of ways ( Brody, 1988). For example, western medicine generally defers to the wishes of a mentally competent patient to make his own decisions, even in most cases where the medical team believes that he or she is not acting in his own best interests. However, many other societies prioritize beneficence over autonomy. An example would be when a patient such as June in this case…