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. In this story her oncologist Dr. Kelekian and associates fail to …show more content…
The role of clinician / Researcher has ethical dilemmas that conflict with, “doing no harm” vs “to serve the greater good”. It’s often when these two concepts intertwine that it may lead to unethical treatments and experiments that may or may not cause harm to humanity. A few years back there were many unethical practices performed by researches and other health profession who violated the ethical value, morals and dignity against humanity. One example of such violation would include Tuskegee syphilis study were African American men were left untreated with syphilis so that researchers could observe the course of the disease. It was not until 1978 that these unethical studies came to a halt with the formation National Commission for he protection human subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research of Legal set forth a set guideline. (Finkelman & Kenner, 2016, p.180) Under this guideline the patient would be respected and be recognized with dignity and having his or her own autonomy, alone with Beneficence and justice that would protect the public from any malice research study. (Finkelman & Kenner, 2016,
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. In this story her oncologist Dr. Kelekian and associates fail to …show more content…
The role of clinician / Researcher has ethical dilemmas that conflict with, “doing no harm” vs “to serve the greater good”. It’s often when these two concepts intertwine that it may lead to unethical treatments and experiments that may or may not cause harm to humanity. A few years back there were many unethical practices performed by researches and other health profession who violated the ethical value, morals and dignity against humanity. One example of such violation would include Tuskegee syphilis study were African American men were left untreated with syphilis so that researchers could observe the course of the disease. It was not until 1978 that these unethical studies came to a halt with the formation National Commission for he protection human subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research of Legal set forth a set guideline. (Finkelman & Kenner, 2016, p.180) Under this guideline the patient would be respected and be recognized with dignity and having his or her own autonomy, alone with Beneficence and justice that would protect the public from any malice research study. (Finkelman & Kenner, 2016,