confidential relationship. ****Doesn’t fit directly into any section within revision sheet on confidentiality but good to know. Professional and Legal Accountability in Confidentiality: Originally evident in Hippocratic Oath which stated that it was shameful to breach confidentiality. Florence Nightingale said every nurse should be capable of being a confidential nurse‚ no gossip or vain talker and should only answer to those who have a right to ask. IRISH Medical Council agree to above. Also that patients
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PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE WRITING ASSIGNMENT When I think about the meaning of “Life” I think about the things that make me happy‚ living to the fullest and having the ability to do what I want at my own free will. To what point do we decide when the experience of being a human being ends? Is it based on the functioning of the body‚ or the brain? Today’s doctors are now performing what is known as physician-assisted suicide‚ which is when a doctor sets up a machine‚ but the patient actually
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Others say that the act is abiding by doctor’s oath to help patients. Robert Young claims that it does not go against moral codes by stating‚ “It is sometimes morally permissible unintentionally to occasion harm despite the harm being foreseen‚ provided there is a sufficiently grave reason” (Young 84). On the contrary‚ legalizing active euthanasia is morally wrong‚ many physical complications almost always occur‚ and it goes against the Hippocratic Oath. For those reasons‚ we believe active euthanasia
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Medicine were created in order to save people from the edge of death instead of pushing people out of the way of live. Therefore‚ regarding to Hippocratic oath and the original use of medicine‚ assisted suicide should not be allowed. California passed assisted suicide law recently. California is the largest state so far that legalized assisted-suicide law whihc potentially present challenges other states
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factors were based on diet and living habits. Hippocrates had practiced Humorism. Humorism is the makeup and workings on the human body. It was the four bodily human fluids that influence their temperament and health. There were four humors of Hippocratic medicine. The Black bile would be “Earth” and your gall bladder. The Yellow Bile would be “Fire” and your spleen. The Blood would mean ‘Air” and your Liver. The last one would be the Phlegm which is water “water” and your brain/lungs. All of these
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Ethical Dilemma All healthcare professionals take the Hippocratic Oath‚ in this oath it states that‚ “I will respect the privacy of my patients‚ for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.” (Miles‚ S. H. (2004) There are many different versions of this oath but the concept and meaning behind it remains unchanged. This section of the oath was designed in part to protect patient’s privacy. Building and establishing a relationship based
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In ancient Greece there were two philosophies of medicine: religious and scientific. Even before the Hippocratic times‚ the Greeks believed that the appearance of the diseases was associated with sins. In Greek society‚ God played a huge role in the maintenance of human health. When a person got sick‚ it was seen as a punishment of God‚ that is‚ this person apparently has sinned; and vice versa‚ if a person was healed from sickness‚ so he deserved it and it was a gift from God. It was also due to
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Chaplain in Plymouth‚ Michigan. Should Physician-Assisted suicide be legal? What do you think? Some believe that PAS demeans the human life – that PAS would violate doctors’ Hippocratic oaths. Many religions prohibit suicide and the intentional killings of others. Even though PAS would violate doctors ’ oaths‚ I believe physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. Vital organs could be saved and used allowing doctors to save the lives of others‚ people could die with dignity rather than
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Jeff Howell Dr. Bonnie Amodio English Composition 2 13 October 2014 Paper 2 According to the opposing viewpoints database "Assisted suicide occurs when a physician provides a patient with the means of ending his or her life-usually a prescription for a fatal dose of drugs. The patient takes the drugs independently of the doctor." Assisted Suicide (also known as physician assisted suicide) has been an issue that is becoming hot as scientists are getting the ability to prolong human life and find
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