End Of Life

In,“Truth telling and advance planning at the end of life: Problems with autonomy in a multicultural world” by Lucy M. Candid, she addresses problems of ethical and cultural in healthcare. It contradicts each other a lot. Specifically, she focuses on two different values. One of which is the value of family more important than personal autonomy. The other one is how a patient could control their own life. She shows that caring for a patient is changing. The author also recommends things that doctors and nurses could do in these situations. First off, the controversy is happening over a long period of time. There is a dramatic change in how we practice care in the end-of-life. Doctors and nurses sometimes believe that revealing medical information could hinder the happiness of the client present. The patients will think only about their death and not care about life. In contrast, the acknowledgment of the disease is believed to be cruel to the patient. It does not honor the patient's self-government. An end-of-life specialist, Stephen Levine, wrote a book on “spending a year as if he has a year to live” (Candid, pg. 2). The patients would live differently. They can fulfill all their dreams and what they want to do the most and when they die, they will not have any regrets. Now, the believe switches. In school or workplace, we are taught how to …show more content…
175). If we think about it, it is not really a dilemma because the doctor is biased. He uses his own experiences into thinking that everyone is the same. If he tells the patient first, he could practice autonomy by accepting the patient’s way of care in the family. He can be cultural competent at the same time by considering how the patient’s family practice in medicine, especially in the end-of-life