Do not resuscitate

sacred, we can’t stop fully competent adult people from making their own decisions about their life in any other situation. If we can stop others, then why do we allow, or even encourage people to go to war where they could die? Why do we let it continue even though we know they could experience negative lasting impacts? We let these people do this because they have both the capability and understanding to make their own decisions. When you draw this example, the lines start to fade to gray.…

As an author of the time in being, was a time many writers wrote about their opinions or ideas into their stories about the society. In the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, is trying to find herself as one whole person and what she truly wants to be. She is awaking as a women but stumbles over the men that try to silence her. When she was young she married a man named Logan Killicks, who treats her poorly as if she was a mule. Soon she…

denied her simpering students the touch of human kindness she now seeks” (59). She has with a student who requests an extension on a paper because the student’s grandmother died and he has to go home for the weekend. She refuses to give him an extension—“Do what you will, but the paper is due when it is due” (63)—showing her commitment to…

only area of textual criticism (lower) that has benefitted me is the demonstration that Scripture is accurate to the original manuscripts. The general consensus given was, not that material is missing, but that there may be minor copy inclusions that do not affect the overall reading. Dr. Bill Mounce in his NT survey class instructed us that the Bible that we have is 100% sufficient to present the Gospel. I dream of a rewritten Transforming Mission without higher textual criticism and…

Mini Mental Status Exam JS scored twenty-eight out of thirty possible on the Mini-Mental State Examination. This shows no cognitive impairment without any clinical signs of cognitive impairment present. She received a perfect score on everything except two areas. The first one was only being able to recite only two of the three items to be remembered. Second area was difficulty counting back from one hundred by sevens (Demential Today website, n.d.). Mini-Mental Status Exam results show…

a human, just as it causes people to question the aftermath of the scientific progress on the common welfare. The protagonist in the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is motivated to advance the field of science by attempting to resuscitate the dead. The book describes the events after the Victor’s creation of the hideous…

professionals as this may hinder the care of the patient. According to the 2010 survey by Fugate mentioned in the article Organ Donation after Circulatory Death (2011), there is a wide discrepancy between hospital on criteria for DCD and nearly half do not have a clear definition of what determines circulatory death (36). In Sharon’s case the time frame was sixty minutes with irreversible cardiopulmonary cessation for five minutes, however another hospital may be for ninety minutes with death…

Pediatric Epilepsy Center says, "Better treatment for children with uncontrolled seizures is desperately needed" (Bunim). Researchers have found a type of marijuana called Charlotte 's Web that has almost no tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which makes those who do smoke marijuana have that high feeling. However, Charlotte 's Web contains a cannabinoid (CBD) which does not give a high feeling or have any known side effects like a weed with THC in it. A young girl named Charlotte had this type of…

patients loved ones, whether they were ready to die or not. There are other assisted suicides, but they are done by a physician. Such as to allow the death of a patient by palliative sedation, withholding life supporting treatments, and honoring do not resuscitate requests. A family member may be asked to “pull the plug”, when their loved one could have done the same thing before their condition became worse. This would save someone from having to make a decision that would ultimately end…

“I want to be surgeon”, “I know how to preform CPR, I watched it on Grey’s Anatomy”, “that obviously has to be tuberculosis, I’ve seen it on TV”. Television has opened up a whole new door to get information across to the viewers. It allowed viewers to learn what’s going on in the world, learn about new exciting inventions, and finally, to be entertained. The medical genre of television is relatively newer, and has captivated audiences around the nation the last 50 years. Unfortunately, the…