Refusing Medication

Refusing Medication The United States of America is the most diverse country. It has citizens and permeant residences from all over the world, some ethical groups have a very stricken values and beliefs to medicine and treatment. In the medical field doctors face a tremendous tribulations dealing with patients from different backgrounds. Some people have different values and beliefs when it comes to medicine, while others have a difficult life circumstances that limits the options of treatments, and that can be the reason behind the fact that there is people out in the world deny medical treatment on purpose. Some ethics groups for example do not allow blood transfusion such as, Jehovah’s Witness. Some people do not have the time to go for regular checkups or regular treatment sessions. Anthropologists
Not everyone in the world is fortune enough to get a treatment for a series condition that the one have. Culture play a big role in the explanations behind induvial refusing lifesaving treatments. Synonymous of culture revolves around ethnicity, nationality and language. For example, patients with certain ethnicity and beliefs such as, Jehovah’s witness and their refusal on any form of blood transfusion or blood products, based on biblical verses. In a paper by Professor R Macklin, He discuss a two standard case studies of Jehovah’s witness that needed a blood transfusion. The first case study was a competent adult patient that refused a treatment that potentially save his life. In spite of that, the respect of person’s principles endorses the physicians to conform with the expressed wishes of the competent adult patient even if the anticipated repercussions are hostile and vault. The competent