Hippocratic Oath

Death: Who Has The Right? What does death mean to you? Is it an act of God or an effect of our mortality? If you were in an irreversible state or had a terminal illness, how would you want to spend your last days? Who would you want to dictate how you lived your last moments: a political leader, congressman, family member, or yourself? Death is an imminent result for all of us so we should have the rights to die the way that is ideal for unideal situations. What is your perspective? Should our…

Across the United States, several companies are currently being investigated for abusing their position as cadaveric collecting agencies. These companies are freezing, rather than embalming, whole bodies, organs, and tissues and are transferring the products into an illicit international organ market. Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an investigation to unravel this market for organs, and what they found was astounding: Chicago was serving as a hub city for the…

sets of codes of ethics. Due to the entrusted special responsibilities in the community such as facing special issues those normal citizens wont, professional codes of ethics are formed. For instance, codes of ethics of physicians started from Hippocratic oath that originated in ancient Greek society. Today, you can find professional bodies embodying the codes such as the American Medical Association code. Not to mention, there is an International Code of Medical Ethics to define the physician’s…

It started out as an ordinary sore throat. That was all; nothing more than a hoarse voice and the symptoms of a common cold. The scheduled outpatient procedure should have gone seamlessly, it being a simple laryngoscopy to examine her voice box and vocal cords. How quickly things changed. One moment the famous comedian was relatively healthy and the next she was lying unresponsive on an operating table, no longer able to breathe. This was due to a severe case of medical malpractice that occurred…

Christina Symanski of Freehold, N.J. was a young art teacher who had a full, vivacious life ahead of her. She was contemplating marriage and family with her boyfriend of 6 months. Then, in 2005, her life came to a screeching halt in an accident. She found her quality of life suddenly deteriorated significantly when she broke her neck from diving into a shallow pool. As a direct consequence of the accident, Ms. Symanski suffered from quadriplegia, a form of paralysis that results in the loss of…

Public Administrators are often placed in a situation that requires them to practice discretion. By discretion, I am referring to the ability to decide and make important decisions, when instructions are not clear or given; on what is right and wrong in a particular situation. This goes back to Finer and Friedrich on how they believe public professionals should handle situations. Finer suggested that they should strictly follow the guidelines of the legislature. While Friedrich stated that they…

Imagine a loved one battling with stage four cancer. The cancer is not responding to any type of treatment, and your loved one will never leave the hospital. Your loved one requires twenty-four-hour care, is confined to a wheelchair or bed, unable to feed themselves, clothe, or bathe themselves, and has difficulty communicating. Ask yourself, is life worth living in this situation? Many patients would rather end the suffering and pain. For many human beings, the value of life is commonly linked…

The Code for Warriors Is there a code that ancient samurai warriors followed in Japan? Most professions around the world abide by some code. For example, doctors follow the Hippocratic oath, lawyers have the professional code, and engineers follow the code of ethics. For example, the samurais of Japan also lived by a strict code of conduct called the Bushido Code. Many years ago in Japan, the country had an ethical system called Bushido. The Bushido was the code for the country’s samurais…

fact that patients have a right to make decisions about their life and treatments, there are several laws that prevent them from opting for euthanasia. Euthanasia violates codes of medical ethics that have existed since the ancient past and the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors on graduation prevents them from aiding a patient’s death (Best 2010). This results in terminally ill patients suffering from incurable disease to remain in pain and suffering, hence depriving them of their rights to…

ROE V. WADE 2 Roe V. Wade: A Woman’s Right To Choose The case that made abortion legal was the Roe v. Wade case that acquired a lot of controversy. In many cases of the women’s right to choose most people believed it to be wrong to…