Ethical Issues Of Euthanasia Case Study

Bio ethical issues are broad in content and therefore, worth having basic knowledge on. There are common ethical issues that medicine professionals have to deal with in their daily operations. They include euthanasia and treatment procedures against the patients will. In this paper, these issues are outlined based on a case study where the patient is an 82 woman with a cardiac problem is at least admitted thrice in the hospital the same year. The patient further develops renal complications and an infection in the course of treatment (Virtual Mentor, 2005). In this scenario, the major stakeholders in the case are Mrs. Jones family and Dr. Rosenberg, who is the cardiologist. The family spokesman, who is the patient son expresses that her mother is in pain and suffering and it is better to end her life at her age rather than starting the new treatments; dialysis and administration of antibiotics whose former experience of a relative was discomforting and painful (McKay v. Bergstedt, (1990). The doctor on the other hand, presses that it is unethical for him to end the woman’s life based on his profession. He instead advocate for application …show more content…
Mrs. Jones family in this case can be granted their request due the intention to cause death is to control any treatment that would put her under pain. Based on the logic incident of analysis, the family seems to be making the right decision. Apart from the cardiac disease the patient has, a kidney issue struck the patient thus involves critical body organs. The probability of the patient getting over these two critical conditions is lower. Additionally, the patient gets an infection in the course of her cardiac treatment indicating the immune system is exhausted. It is therefore, worth stopping the suffering by withholding some treatments (Gonzales v. Oregon,