study that harvested pain‚ suffering‚ and distrust among the different populations. Reference: Jones‚ J.H. (2008). The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. In E. Emanuel‚ C. Grady‚ R.C. Couch‚ and R. Lie‚ eds.‚ The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Research Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 8). pp. 86 – 96. Retrieved from http://science.jburroughs.org/mbahe/BioEthics/Articles/TuskegeeReadings/TuskegeeOxfordTextbook.pdf Perni‚ H. (2005). A heritage of hypocrisy: Why ‘they’ hate us. Pennsylvania:
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The coding of DM can be difficult Learn to look for: Various manifestations Types—type 1 or type 2 Controlled or uncontrolled Default is type 2 DM if Type of diabetes mellitus not documented Use Z code for long-term use of insulin--Z79.4 Do not use Z code if insulin is temporarily given to control blood sugar In ICD-10-CM there are 5 category codes for diabetes mellitus: E08 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition (code underlying condition first) E09 Drug or chemical induced
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References: Grand Canyon University‚ Legal and Ethical Principles. Module 1 Paola‚ F. A.‚ Walker‚ R.‚ and Nixon‚ L. L. (2010). Medical ethics and humanities. Sudbury‚ MA: Jones and Bartlett.
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from the case of Cruzan v. Director‚ Missouri dept. of Health‚ 497 U.S. 261‚ 110 S. Ct. 28411 (1990); the outcome of the case was that is it “recognized that a competent person had a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment” (Pozgar & Santucci‚ 2010‚ pg. 121). If a patient does not want to be resuscitated after cardiac arrest‚ then they have the right to choose to die. These orders are most commonly used in advanced stages of disease‚ elderly patients
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The “Terri Schaivo” case an ethical verses medical deliberation‚ become famous when the judiciary and legislative branch involved in the case either withdrawing the feeding tube or not. Finally the supreme court ordered to remove the feeding tube from Terri Schaivo that impacted the current view of human euthanasia. As a health care prospective‚ will review this case in term of ethical‚ legal‚ social‚ moral‚ nursing‚ health care and stakeholder prospectives. Also will explain‚ how the ethical
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I became aware of this medical- ethical dilemma through my clinical assignment in pediatrics. My patient was a 3 month old female who was born dead. Apparently the mother suffered Placenta Abruptio‚ it is unknown how long the fetus suffered with hypoxia before birth. Nurses claim this infant was born dead. CPR was performed for more than 15 minutes before the heart started. Needless to say the baby was then placed on life support. A determination was made that the infant is brain dead. The major
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On the other hand‚ the opposing side believes that people do not have the right to sell their organs to those who need them. Multiple people believe that you do not have the right over your own body. The OPTN/UNOS Ethics Committee suggests that the “Opponents of financial incentives point out that there would be potentially decreased emotional gain for the donor family‚ decreased respect for life and the sanctity of the human body‚ and a loss of the personal link that currently exists in the donation
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Margaret Pabst Battin is a professor at the University of Utah. She is a professor of philosophy and internal medicine‚ Division of Medical Ethics. The thesis of this article is “I believe that this opposition to euthanasia is in serious moral error—on grounds of mercy‚ autonomy‚ and justice. She gives two duties concerning mercy‚ “the duty not to cause further pain or suffering and the duty to act to end pain or suffering already occurring.” For the first duty‚ if a treatment or test will not
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killing". It is one of society ’s most widely and hotly debated moral issues. This topic has pained and exhausted the courts in several countries throughout the world‚ for too long‚ questioning the ethics and morality of the issue. Euthanasia must not be legalized in Canada for many moral and medical reasons. Firstly‚ the legalization of euthanasia has proved to lead to involuntary killing. In 1990‚ physicians in the Netherlands were involved in 11‚800 deaths or 9% of all deaths in the country
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Mercy death or alternatively‚ mercy killing‚ popularly termed‚ ‘Euthanasia’ is the act or practice of killing or ending one’s life in order to kill someone painlessly and in a more dignified way. Such means are generally applicable in case of an individual suffering from incurable disease or a terminal illness via means of lethal dose or suspension of life support treatment. Such a practice might as well occur as voluntary action by the consent of the patient or his relatives‚ however in the language
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