Atul Gawande explores the difficult situation that doctors face when their patients are near death. Dr. Gawande wants to learn from his mistakes as he feels guilty that he reduced his patient’s limited lifespan. He had had good intentions to attempt to cure his patient’s lung cancer through treatment, but instead worsen the condition. Gawande knew that treatments had a less than five percent chance to cure lung cancer, but he was not honest with his patient trying and maintaining hope. Unfortunately, Gawande’s patient passed away in the hospital with the regret of not spending her final moments with her family.…
Mrs. Sylvia Kovacs-Kerbs, is a young mother from the small country of Hungary. She moved to the United States at just twelve years of age, to join her mother and step-father in a new adventure. There are many cultural aspects the Kerbs family deem necessary to continue within their new American life-style. Although Sylvia has spent more than half her life in America, the cultural roots of Hungary are imbedded in her soul, a culture she and her husband instill in the lives of their four children.…
Jacqueline, or Dr. Black, was one of the multiple people who Pearson met who strongly believed in the importance of standing by their patients through difficult times. By the time Jacqueline’s patient, Gloria was found to have cervical cancer, she had already had her phone number. Pearson writes about how some doctors, like Jacqueline, choose to make doctoring the main focus of their life. While the workdays of many doctors ended as soon as they left the office, Jacqueline spent her time convincing St. Vincent’s House to fund Gloria’s CT scan, driving Gloria to Houston to apply for charity care, and continuously comforting her through their struggle to find a treatment. This way of practicing medicine is seen as wrong by some doctors and even Pearson thinks that some doctors get too involved with their patients.…
Cancer, the dreaded six letter word that will affect almost everyone at some point in their life; whether cancer is their cancer or the cancer of a loved one. What happens when the cancer the doctors said was gone comes back only a year later and this time worse than before? For Mary Williams, this just so happened to be her case. Her malignant melanoma is back and this time an unspoken terminal is present in the diagnosis. As a mother of two young girls, eight and eleven years old, Williams is given no choice but to fight.…
Templeton, who is suffering from an incurable lung disease in the intensive care unit. Tilda experiences difficulties with delivering optimal care to her patient due to Mrs. Templeton’s son being responsible for his mother’s care plan. He insists that everything will be done in order to save his mother’s life but, when Tilda is confronted by a stubborn and demanding family member, she is unsure about how to provide care for her patient. Tilda understands that Mrs. Templeton is passing away due to her age and lung condition and believes that she should not have to suffer during her death. After observing Mrs. Templeton agonize in pain, she advocates for her patient and communicates with Mrs. Templeton’s son that the ventilator, intravenous, feeding tubes, and the catheter are irritating Mrs. Templeton.…
The role of doctors in both the treatment of cancer patients and their families plays a critical role in helping both the patient and their family deal with the stress, burden, and, in some cases, grief during and after treatment. This is evident in Jerome Groopman’s novel, The Measure of Our Days, especially in the story of Matt. Throughout this story, Groopman demonstrates this role, as both he and Dr. Samuels give Billy hope during Matt’s cancer treatments, and aid him in accepting Matt’s inevitable death. Throughout Matt’s first treatment, Groopman and Samuels provide a source of comfort and hope, allowing Billy to combine both his faith in God and his faith in the doctors, and their ability to help Matt heal, as when he first hears Matt’s diagnosis, where he “pressed his hands together in a powerful upward arc…
The book “The End of Your Life Book Club” written by Will Schwalbe is a literary work centred around issues pertaining to adult development and aging. It is focused on the physical and emotional well-being of a number of characters of different generations as well as their relationships. An important theme in the book is physical health. One of the main characters, Mary Anne Schwalbe who is 73 years old, experiences various normative physical changes such as graying and thinning of her hair as well as getting tired more easily (Schwalbe, 2012). As learned in class, besides normative changes however, a large number of older adults in the United States experience chronic health conditions.…
A usual afternoon at Mesa hospital, Dr. Debra enter her office and found the test result her submitted earlier that week for one of her long-term patient named Pat. She kindly asked one of the nurse to bring her a cup of coffee while she sat down and going over the result while waiting for her coffee. On the third page she found that patient Pat was diagnosed with terminal cancer, on top of her head she remembered that Pat specifically told her she doesn't want to know the result if it is anywhere close to the category of Alzheimer's disease or terminal cancer. At the moment, one of the nurse brought in her coffee and quietly sat it at the corner of Debra's desk and left the room due to Debra's leaden heart look. Dr. Debra called Pat without…
She continued to struggle as she was growing up. At the age of 22, Sybil was sent home from college because she was not well and needed to see a psychiatrist. This only made her condition worse because of her terrible past and relationship with her parents. Sybil wanted to continue to study and wanted to get better. She went to the doctor with her mother hoping he would ask about her.…
But he finds the exact opposite. Instead of helping his condition, Vera with her story about her aunt tragedy, actually pushes Ms.Nuttel into a frenzy of fear and nervousness, making his condition much worse. But not only Ms.Nuttel who fell into her story. I, myself, have…
If a doctor has to carry out a particular procedure or give advice about a treatment option that conflicts with what the particular doctor beliefs, it may cause conflict and might affect the treatment or advice they provide the patient. Doctors must explain this issue to the patient and may recommend the patient to another doctor as the other doctor may provide the advice the patient requires. The doctor must be satisfied that the patient has a sufficient amount of information on their condition to enable the patient to choose a preferable treatment. The doctor must ensure that arrangements are made for another suitably qualified colleague to take over their role. This creates a positive care environment because patients’ know for certain that the patients are…
1. A time based logistics would definitely be profitable for Woodmere and Home Help. Home Help needs product fast to their stores to make sure there is not a short of supply with stock out.…
An allusion to the disease porphyria is used to describe the disease the protagonist has when the protagonist recalls that the doctor says “the name of the disease, which had some Ps and Rs ... He’d only seen a case like me once before … looking at my yellow eyes, my pink teeth, my red fingernails, the long, dark hair that was sprouting on my chest and arms” (Atwood, 4). This subtle allusion uses both the common symptoms of porphyria, as well as some of the common letters in the word, leaving it up to the reader to figure out exactly what is wrong with the girl. The final effective descriptive…
The film call Wits was released in 2006 and it portray the experience of a 17th century English poetry professor name Vivian Bearing who was diagnose with stage IV ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian was her clinician and researcher who proposed for her to receive an experimental eight course treatment of chemotherapy that was the only inform option provided to her. As the next few months are spent in the hospital, Vivian addresses the experiences that she encounters as patient whose dehumanized and view as a subject rather than a human being. Conflict of Dual of loyalty The most controversial and Ethical dilemma that she experienced was the Conflict of Dual of loyalty to patient.…
A few weeks ago, I found myself on the second floor of the North end of the Unity Health Hospital, dressed in the nicest button-up shirt and dress pants I own, shaking so hard that my folder, which held my resume, cover letter, two pens, notebook paper and a cheesy motivational quote stuck to the inside cover, nearly fell out of my hands. My first job interview was an experience that I will never forget. My anxiety reached the point of exacerbation during the fifteen minutes that I spent in the empty lobby. I had intentionally arrived fifteen minutes earlier than my appointed time and was only accompanied by my own thoughts, which were fraught with worry. Had I arrived too early?…