Hippocratic Oath

Sheri Fink’s 2003 nonfiction work War Hospital reports, in great detail, the atrocities of the Bosnian War at Srebrenica through the lens of the war medicine that was practiced there. Fink takes both a macro and micro approach to explaining what happened at Srebrenica in the early 1990s. She chronicles the actions, thoughts, and experiences of individual doctors, both Bosnian and international, who risked their lives to treat injured civilians in the most challenging of conditions. Alongside…

Organ Transplants According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website (organdonor.gov), “123,377 people are waiting for an organ and 21 people will die each day waiting for transplants that can’t take place because of the shortage of donated organs.” In 2012, there were 95,000 people on the waiting list (Becker & Elias, 2014) and in 2010; there were 105,000 people (McConnell, Brue & Flynn, 2014, p.62). The slight decrease from 2010 to 2012 may seem promising. However, candidates…

await their demise. Anderson also quotes Victoria Reggie Kennedy, who believes that most people would prefer a death surrounded by loved ones, and a PAS would be cold, unloving and extreme. Anderson also claims that this would be contrary to the Hippocratic Oath and that nobody should be legally allowed to kill…

4% of 886, this is the number of patients who had assisted suicide and failed that later went on to kill themselves, this number may seem low but it is still too high. Assisted suicide is when there is a patient who is very ill or in a lot of pain, and there doctor or nurse helps them to die. A drug is given to the patient's called euthanasia, this is what is given to patients to help to end their life faster then naturally dying. Which is why it is called assisted suicide, because we are not…

Canada, like many other countries, embraces a liberal democracy social system, putting an importance on the promotion of civil liberty, equality, and community. Our country is widely viewed as an exemplar of liberalism, which strongly emphasizes choice and autonomy as fundamental principles for each individual. The state promotes the ideology that an individual’s life belongs only to them, that each individual has the right to their own means and ends, along with the right to make decisions,…

Abortion: a moral problem Individuals hold different views on the issue of abortion. There are those who agree, others who reject it and some others who choose an intermediate attitude. Whatever position an individual takes must be substantiated. For the purposes of this paper, it is important to discuss the point of view of Catholics against abortion. The Catholic Church has always defended that “Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it…

the only option that they have available to them. Another argument is the issue of professional integrity. When a physician takes the Hippocratic Oath, they state that they will support their 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…

ask questions, verify all of the facts, and inform them of the info that is going to be published. Yet more than just contacting the family, the Hipporatic Oath had been in circulation centuries and included patient confidentiality and stated that a physicain must promise confidentiality to the patient. Despite this all, the Hippocratic Oath was not a law, and merely a guideline. On the contrary, it can be said that this can all be disregarded because once a patient is dead, they have no right…

Social Justice Issue One of the most important things all religions deal with is death. Dying is often seen as an occasion for getting powerful spiritual insights and preparing for some type of afterlife. Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. So it’s not surprising that all faiths have strong views on euthanasia. Particularly, Roman Catholicism and Buddhism have similar and opposing stances on euthanasia. Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana…

The word “death” holds so much meaning to every individual on this planet. It can strike fear in many, but for others it can be a release. A release from being trapped in a body that can only feel pain or that cannot feel at all. Many beg for death to never come knocking on their door, while others leave the door unlocked. Why should death be denied to those already dying, if their wish is to no longer suffer under the amount of pain they are under? These people should have the right to decide…