Andrea Smith, a LPN of Truman, Arkansas, pled guilty to wrongfully disclosing a patient’s health information for a personal gain. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years of imprisonment, and a $250,000 fine. Andrea, and her husband Justin Smith, were indicted on federal charges by violating the HIPPA in December of 2006. She was working at the Northeast Arkansas multispecialty clinic, in Jonesboro. Basically, Andrea Smith accessed a patient’s private medical information on November 28, 2006.…
On 2-3-2016 Amanda Zgrabik was arrest for Domestic violence and endangering children. It was determined while Christopher Lytle Amanda’s son was in her care he consumed her prescription medication. Amanda stated to Officer’s she believed Christopher ingested marijuana. Officer’s located Thomas at the Emergence room with Christopher. Staff at the Emergence room advise the Christopher’s blood work tested positive for Benzodiazaping, not THC.…
Gina Herlihy is a board certified Physician Assistant. She earned her undergraduate degree at University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She attended St. Louis University where she received her master’s degree as a Physician Assistant in 2006. She has practiced in urgent care, dermatology and orthopedics.…
In the court case The People of the State of Colorado v. Sandra L. Jacobson, Jacobson is convicted of homicide. The homicide resulted from her truck colliding with a taxi cab while she was driving under the influence. There were two passengers in the taxi at the time of the collision and both were killed. Jacobson appealed the court’s decision on the basis that the trial court did not allow her attorneys to gauge whether or not the jury had become biased due to mid-trial publicity that included inadmissible information. On the fourth day of the trial, the Court was made aware of the fact that a local television network would be covering the incident that led to this trial on its evening news program.…
In 1975, two sisters, Katherine Lyon aged 10 years old and Sheila Lyon aged 12 years old went missing after a trip to a shopping mall in Maryland of Washington, D.C. The girls’ bodies were never found until now. This was one of the longest unsolved cases in Washington D.C.. These sisters were known as The Lyon Sisters and were born in Kensington, Maryland. Their parents, John and Mary Lyon, and brother, Jay, who is a police officer.…
In regards to the case of Vanessa Anderson’s death the Australian legal system plays an important role in the explaining and elaborating on the importance of an inquest report and the coroner’s court of NSW in addition to this it is possible to use inquest report it is possible to outline the health care delivery services that were involved in Vanessa’s care. Using an example from the inquest report the healthcare concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence can be also be elaborated on. The Australian legal system is broken into two different sources of law, legislation and common law. Legislation law comes from parliament, parliament enables acts and statutes which has influence over individuals, groups or populations as a whole.…
Anna Stubblefield, a professor of Ethics from Rutgers University, was recently convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Stubblefield allegedly assaulted a student who suffers from cerebral palsy. He is reportedly unable to walk, dress, communicate, and use the restroom without assistance. Court officials have said that Stubblefield was taking advantage of a mentally incapable person, but she claims that she and the student were in love. Stubblefield is married and has two children.…
The reporter stated on 10/02/15 Karlie was brought to the clinic with complaints of sore throat and ear pain. A strep throat test was done and it returned negative; Karlie was prescribed medication for ADHD and sent home. The reporter stated later that same evening, the child was taken to the emergency room with complaints of sore throat and abdominal pain. Lab work was performed and tests were run but everything came back negative. On 10/05/15 the child was brought by her mother to the clinic with the same complaints.…
The Case of Amanda Serpico a former Rutgers student who was accused of plagiarism in her “Argumentation” course at the college. As part of the class, she wrote an opinion paper arguing on the politics of gay marriage. While everything seemed well after turning in the assignment, two days before Christmas (after the course had ended and she was on break), the instructor of the course emailed her and informed her that plagiarism had been detected in her work. Ms. Serpico was not allowed to discuss the accusation, and did the only thing she could do try to prove her innocence by writing appeals to the university administration board. Unfortunately, they were rejected.…
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…
One of the most controversial homicide cases in US history was the case of Andrea Yates, who systematically drowned her five children in her home bathtub on June 20, 2001. Andrea’s trial was very long and difficult because it was hard to establish what the reasons were behind her killing her own children; to me a variety of different factors influenced Andrea and led her to commit this horrible act, there wasn’t just one reason. According to research Andrea had been bulimic and depressive as a teenager, despite her perfectionist traits and good performance as a student and daughter, Andrea had once spoke about suicide to a friend, which to me is an evident warning of a severe mental disorder, however; Andrea had seemed to overcome her disorders and signs of depression and took on a regular life and college career. While in college Andrea met who would later become her husband, Rusty Yates, who had been a devoted and serious Christian for a couple of years by this time.…
Problem Statement The large portion of the problem is that BCBSNC customer service representatives are not properly trained to handle frustrated or irate customers. This lack of training is manifested in the company’s overall 66.1% customer satisfaction rating. To further complicate the problem, BCBSNC is just one of multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) organizations to tout a negative public perception of customer service. BCBSNC Background Information BCBSNC was founded in 1933.…
The Case of Andrea Yates Life can be hard, and certainly Andrea Yates’ story is both hard and depressing. A woman who had everything in life and was living the American dream suddenly turned things around and killed her four sons and her daughter. Some people might attribute this to domestic abuse, others to a psychological illness. While the specific reasons are unknown, there has to be something that triggered her actions as a normal human being does not kill her 5 children without having a mental breakdown. Let’s start with the facts: Andrea Yates was part of a heavily religious lifestyle, with his husband and her having five kids and her husband not showing any signs of stopping having kids as it was in his believes that one should have…
a. Yes, Andrea Yates was insane, and still is because she still in a mental hospital. I was person is insane when they starting hearing voice in their head, wall moving, hallucinating demons, and worshiping Satan. Even though I respect every religions, worshiping is kind of insane. Yates show that she does have these symptom in her. Therefore, she is insane in my opinion.…
There is not much known about Brown, According to his death certificate, Brown died on September 28, 1919, age about forty, a laborer by trade, marital status unknown, and birthplace unknown, But Brown was a human being. No name on record of his parents the cause of death was “bullet wounds through the body and lynched.” Today Brown has a gravestone, donated by Californian Chris Hebert, who learned in a Henry Fonda television special of Omaha’s riot and Brown’s murder. The donor had no connection with Omaha and asked only that “Lest we forget” be engraved on the stone. “It’s too bad it took deaths like these to pave the way for the freedoms we have today. . . .…