Henrietta Lacks was feeling sick 1952, she visited john Hopkins hospital for medical test. Doctors found out that she was suffering from cervical cancer. At that time a doctor name George Gey was working at the hospital, him and his colleagues were working in the lab trying to grow the first immortal human cell that could live outside the body and multiplies over time but they have been failing for years. While Henrietta was at the hospital some of her cells were taken without a consent and her tissue was going to change things when Mary, Gey assistant found out that Henrietta cell multiplied and she named it HeLa. The name HeLa comes from the first two initial of Henrietta Lacks first and last name.…
The current event, I chose to write about is a case that happened in 1992, however, the case now has a suspect in custody. In April of 1992 in Westfield Massachusetts, a woman named Lisa Ziegert was discovered murdered in a wooded area. Ziegert was working late at the Agawam card and gift store where she went missing, her body was discovered four days later in a nearby area. The report states that she was raped and stabbed. Ziegert was twenty- four years old the year she was murdered; her case will not have a suspect in custody until twenty-five years later.…
The Ethical Dilemmas surrounding ‘Savior Siblings’ In 2002, Jayson and Michelle Whitaker, the parents of Charlie Whitaker, their then four year old son, faced a decision that would test the bounds of both modern medicine and the ethical limitations which govern it. When he was twelve weeks old, Charlie had been diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (DBA), a rare blood disease which prevents the body from creating sufficient red blood cells; requiring frequent treatments which prove painful and exhaustive for both the recipient and in this case the helpless, on-looking parents. To stay alive, Charlie received recurring blood transfusions and almost nightly drug infusions. Distraught with their son’s ailment, traumatizing treatment and the…
The medical ethics case on Dr. Anna Pou questions the ethics itself in several forms and different issues. The issue is that the medical departments, nationally or locally, should always provide care for patients no matter the type of emergency or disaster. It doesn’t matter the amount of laws and regulations they pass or provide to help medical institutions work easily and efficiently, which should help provide patients with medical care they rightfully deserve and need. In order to be able to successfully allow such difficult decisions to be made and acted upon such circumstances, such as the one occurred in Medical Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, they need to create clear and conscious laws that is workable and lawfully and medically ethical that the head and the staff of the medical institute can follow easily to avoid such situation in the future. As Dr. Pou has been trying to pass laws to help…
In Margaret Edson’s “W;t,” it mentions the stories of the Flopsy Bunnies. This was a child’s tale about the life of a family of bunnies. It explains what the term soporific means and how it relates to the condition of Vivian in the play “W;t.” Vivian Bearing was the main character in “W;t.” She was a professor at a university in England and she taught Metaphysical poetry which played a large role in the development of this character.…
Dr. Ratner’s speech was extremely impactful. The story about his daughter really touched home for me. I was in a similar situation with my uncle who was diagnosed and died of AML Leukemia a few years, so I feel like I understood some aspects of his experience with his daughter quite well. I think healthcare or future healthcare provider learn a lot from experiencing a situation similar to what their patients will be. It helps put the healthcare provider in the patient’s shoes.…
Does the name Henrietta Lacks ring a bell? To most people not a single individual comes to mind and the fact that she helped change science and medicine forever remains unknown. Rebecca Skloot wanted to spread public awareness of this woman; the woman who’s cells were stolen from her without permission and grown immortally still to this day. A typical young adult that recently graduated college uses their money for paying off classes and selfishly for themselves, but this was not the case for Skloot. She used her student loans and credit cards, piling herself into debt, to research a poor African American family about their mother in order to reveal their story to the world.…
Both the readings bring up an important issue that plagues science and medicine. Henrietta Slacks played in important role in scientific research; her cells allowed scientists to study and come up with treatments for a wide range of diseases. HeLa cells were used to study the effects of radiation on human cells. While the cells were used for important research, one cannot forget that the original samples of cells were taken from Slacks without her consent. Her family was upset when they discovered that scientists were using her cells and distributing information.…
Racism and medical ethics is how this book was given life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a novel based on the woman whose cancer cells would become one of the greatest assets to modern medicine. Her cells would become known simply as HeLa cells: taken from her first and last name. The book does more than just focus on her and her cancer cells, it shows what life was like for her family after the HeLa cells became a groundbreaking discovery in medicine. Without the racism of 1950s south the world would not have a cure for polio.…
Lucy Grealy tells of her years as a child and adult living with Ewing’s sarcoma, a deadly form of cancer with only a fiver percent survival rate. Grealy in her writing manages to evoke in me feelings of pain and anger. The pain that Lucy, as a nine year old had to learn to cope. Anger towards those who harassed and taunted her for many years of her life. I felt a sense of empathy as she tried to sublimate her pain and constantly get out of it.…
Introduction In 1663, Brunswick, Germany was “swamped with refugees [which led to] overcrowding, brought disease and exacerbated outbreaks of the plague” compounded by multiple bad winters which caused additional social stress, anxiety, and hardships (Morton & Dähms, 2006, p. xv). Brunswick was a “fortified, medium city [that was] “predominately Protestant” of practicing Lutherans (Van Heyst, n.d., p. 113). Religion, “popular beliefs and common social characteristics of witches… [which] were typically women, widows, elderly, and largely dependent on their family” fueled the witch stereotype and accusations during this era (Van Heyst, n.d., p. 114).…
She became involved with Daisy when she came to Mrs. Birlings help charity. She came to her for help on what to do, since she was pregnant and hadn’t any money. When the inspector asks what Mrs. Birling did in response to the girl’s pleas for help, she simply stated that she did not believe her, and that she was lying. This was partially true, since Mrs. Birling found out that in fact Daisy did know who the father was, but refused to take any more money from him. When the inspector asked her why she refused the money she says, ‘oh- she had some fancy reason.…
The family is struggling with money because their jobs don’t pay very much. Everyone works very hard just gets by living in the crowded apartment. Lena, Walter’s mother, suddenly receives a large amount of insurance money from the death of her husband. Lena and Walter had different ideas of how to spend the money. Lena wants to buy a house for the family and put Beneatha through medical school but Walter wants to open a liqueur store.…
Daisy had money her whole life and as a result she was selfish and careless. Daisy’s lack of selflessness led her to destroy everything in her wake: “They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald 179). Fitzgerald uses Nick’s realization of Daisy’s true character to further the idea that money causes people to care only about themselves with no regard to the consequences they force onto others. Fitzgerald uses diction by using “smashed”, “vast carelessness”, and “or whatever”, to develope an angry tone and Nick’s realization of Daisy’s power to destroy.…
The prompt that I chose was “The Timothy Quill Case.” Dr. Timothy Quill starts off the case by describing to his readers about the events that happened. He published the case as an article in New England Journal of Medicine in March 1991. Dr. Quill prescribed barbiturates for his 45 year old patient who was suffering from leukemia, Patricia Diane Trumbull. He also told his patient the amount of drug taken that would be considered lethal.…