A gentleman named Bill Vaughan once said “It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying”. I believe that to prolong one's life is to live life as vast as one can, to be as healthy as one should be and to be as happy as one can be. To “prolong life” in the medical field; it is a word often thrown around as to how how to keep a human’s heart beating as long as possible regardless if it is done artificially. The “prolonged of life” becomes known as “Life Sustaining Treatment” (LST). According to the Department of Bioethics “life-sustaining treatment is any medical intervention, technology, procedure, or medication that forestalls the moment of death, whether or not the treatment affects the underlying life-threatening diseases or biological processes”. I believe that life sustaining treatment should not be done based on emotions but on medical facts, as well as when the medical professional knows that the patient
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Other than the machines, a patient would also need doctors, nurses and other personnel needed to provide complete hospital care. According to an article by the Health Affairs, “these daily costs are incremental costs above the constant of $7,164”. A journal from the Milbank stated that the “total Medicare reimbursements averaged $4,527 per enrollee for decedents and $729 for survivors” which were 6.2 times higher for decedents and the “reimbursements for hospital care averaged $3,484 per enrollee for decedents (or 77 percent of total reimbursements), $478 for survivors (or 66 percent of total reimbursements)”. Therefore, between their professional fees and hospital bills, the total amount is often too much to handle and then taken to court in order to find a
Other than the machines, a patient would also need doctors, nurses and other personnel needed to provide complete hospital care. According to an article by the Health Affairs, “these daily costs are incremental costs above the constant of $7,164”. A journal from the Milbank stated that the “total Medicare reimbursements averaged $4,527 per enrollee for decedents and $729 for survivors” which were 6.2 times higher for decedents and the “reimbursements for hospital care averaged $3,484 per enrollee for decedents (or 77 percent of total reimbursements), $478 for survivors (or 66 percent of total reimbursements)”. Therefore, between their professional fees and hospital bills, the total amount is often too much to handle and then taken to court in order to find a