Emergency medical services

Somewhere around the beginning of March 2003 I lost a close family member of mine due to the improper medical care of some health professionals, such as nurses and doctors. This incident caused me to become interested in the subject of End of Life Care. End of Life Care is “the health care, not only that of a hospitalized patient in their last few days or minutes, but more broadly care of those with a terminal illness or terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive, and incurable”.…

“I would never want to be kept alive artificially,” 39 year old quadriplegic French man, Vincent Lambert stated to his wife before his motorbike accident in 2008. However, Vincent has remained in a vegetative state since, causing controversy about his condition and whether he should be allowed to choose to end his life. According to French Law, his wife has the capacity to make a decision about her partners’ life; causing controversy between his family and furthermore reignites the debate on…

When considering the genre of medical science and the work of doctors, we typically imagine these areas in regard to making revolutionary discoveries and saving lives. Is this realistic or a rose-tinted view? History shows medicine and doctors can ‘go bad’ spectacularly. Some medical controversies were accidents, but many have resulted from deliberate actions. Sometimes doctors believed the greater good, as they saw it, was more important than ethical behavior. Many of these incidents were not…

So, many of them are opposed to euthanasia/physician assisted suicide because of religious preferences , but if they had a severe brain disease, or cancer, they wouldn’t be thinking of having the option of this? they rather die slowly with pain. Probably, they don’t think of this because they are healthy and don’t realize what these terminally elderly people go through. The chart above, shows how many patients male/female who decided to go on with euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide…

patients and that they will do no harm. Those against assisted death argue that providing prescriptions to knowingly help a patient end their life goes against a physician’s oath and whole reason for being in the medical field. How would the population as a whole view the integrity of the medical profession if doctors prescribe medications to harm their patients?…

states interest in the protecting the human lives yields to the patients right to refuse medical treatment. In re Quinlan case has made a significant impact and influenced United States law by providing the framework for deciding difficult and controversial legal issues that continue to appear modern medicine advances. Almost every decision since this case has recognized the patients right to refuse medical treatment. This case has also made it clear that when a patient has no autonomy, the…

“At the organizational level, hospitals and clinics need clinical, financial, and administrative data/information to measure, assess, control, and improve the quality and productivity of their operations” (Reid, P., Compton, D. W., Grossman, J. H., Fanjiang, G. 2005). Financial information is especially important for managing healthcare organizations. The primary use of financial information is evaluation of organization’s financial condition. The financial data can answer a question regarding…

When it comes to the topic of Euthanasia most of us will readily agree that it can be a good thing for those who are terminally ill. Where the argument usually ends however is on the question of if a person would be euthanized because they were depressed or because they have a terminal illness. Whereas some are convinced that it is wrong to be euthanized in both situations. Others maintain that a terminally ill patient should be allowed to be euthanized. My own view in the topic is that if a…

40-mile radius, I reorganized and resuscitated the operations of two community health centers and mobilized the residents to utilize the facilities. In less than two months, I was already busy seeing patients, writing treatment protocols for common medical conditions, counseling and teaching classes. Still, I found myself thriving in the midst of this chaos because it elicited imagination, insight into people’s needs and beliefs, patience and a whole lot of compassion. The importance of being a…

An advance directive is a set of instructions, either verbal or written, that people create to describe how they want their medical care to be carried out in the event they become incompetent or incapacitated. Living wills and durable power of attorney are two examples of an advance directive. A living will is a legal document that a person creates to designate how they will be taken care in the event of a terminal illness, especially during the final stages of that terminal illness. The…