Jadyn Armbruster Mr. Konen English 11 18 March 2024 In my assigned novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a very prevalent social issue is medical Malpractice. In this dystopian society, all children are created in a lab. They are organized by a series of last names and levels, alpha, beta, delta, etc. These roles determine their level of competence. However, the characters working with the embryos, often tamper with them. They do things like adding alcohol to the tubes, or adding more or less oxygen to change their development, or IQ. They also do things like pre-sterilize embryos, intentionally birthing them that way, “So we allow around 30 percent of female embryos to develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex hormone every twenty
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There needs to be a solution, more affordable healthcare. More needs to be done in this area. That isn’t all, however, there are a lot of negligence and medication dosage errors that have caused fatalities. It is a bit of a grey area. Doctors diagnose people incorrectly all the time and it often takes trial and error to get a correct diagnosis. Where the malpractice comes in, is when a doctor delays a diagnosis or doesn’t treat one. In order to file a case like this, patients must “Prove there was a doctor-patient relationship, that the doctor failed to live up to the standard of care in diagnosing the patients conditions, and that the doctors failure to diagnose or misdiagnose actually and proximatley caused an actual injury.” (Justia). False lab results can also cause misdiagnosis. Although it is common for doctors to refuse to do something like a simple exam, or x-ray or blood work. That refusal could mean they diagnose a severe injury or deformity, or even cancer, as something small. A common place for misdiagnosis is the ER. There are patients flying in and out of the place and only so many doctors. There is a rush with every single patient and they care for the more emergent
There needs to be a solution, more affordable healthcare. More needs to be done in this area. That isn’t all, however, there are a lot of negligence and medication dosage errors that have caused fatalities. It is a bit of a grey area. Doctors diagnose people incorrectly all the time and it often takes trial and error to get a correct diagnosis. Where the malpractice comes in, is when a doctor delays a diagnosis or doesn’t treat one. In order to file a case like this, patients must “Prove there was a doctor-patient relationship, that the doctor failed to live up to the standard of care in diagnosing the patients conditions, and that the doctors failure to diagnose or misdiagnose actually and proximatley caused an actual injury.” (Justia). False lab results can also cause misdiagnosis. Although it is common for doctors to refuse to do something like a simple exam, or x-ray or blood work. That refusal could mean they diagnose a severe injury or deformity, or even cancer, as something small. A common place for misdiagnosis is the ER. There are patients flying in and out of the place and only so many doctors. There is a rush with every single patient and they care for the more emergent