Hippocratic Oath

Growing up in a single parent household, in inner city Detroit, as a black boy in the fifties through the sixties, you could describe Ben Carson’s childhood as a challenge. His mother, one of 24 children, only had a third grade education. With all of this combined, as a young child, Ben had a horrible temper, low self esteem, and was an atrocious student. How could he care about getting good grades, when he was surrounded by people who had never and did not aspire to achieve in school? However,…

Introduction Most people, when they think of ethics or morals associate the term with rules often used to modify behavior such as the Golden Rule, Ten Commandments or the Hippocratic Oath. Ethics is what is used when trying to establish norms for behavior and conduct that differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Exposure to what is right and or wrong is typically introduced during the childhood years in the home, at school, in church or other social settings. Ethical…

According to the Center For Disease Control and Prevention in 2013 there were 10,076 deaths due to alcohol related traffic accident (cdc). Also according to the CDC in that same year there were 22,767 deaths due to prescription drug overdoses. Of these overdoses 16,235 were from opioid painkillers and 6,973 were benzodiazepines also known as sedative/muscle relaxants (cdc). Why is it that drunk driving fatalities seem to garner more attention nation wide that prescription drug overdoses do? You…

science, not by the gods. He was also one of the first to propose that the earth was round, not flat like other said. Hippocrates was a man who was considered the “father of medicine.” He made a set of medical ethics, which are now called the “Hippocratic…

into electric torture; his only goal was to try to fix something that wasn’t broken in the first place. These people can hardly be called doctors, because they did not exemplify the care and concern that they are supposed to as illustrated by the Hippocratic…

Euthanasia - an act of intentionally ending a terminally ill person 's life, given that it is agreed upon as more “humane” than letting him suffer. Active Euthanasia - euthanasia performed by exposing the patient to drugs, gas or other substances that would lead to a lethal outcome. Passive Euthanasia - euthanasia in which the physicians responsible for the patient intentionally refrain from action and cut off any forms of life support. Intro: The history of euthanasia begins in the ancient…

Brittany Donnelly English 1A Tim Sowles 18 May 2016 The Slip n’ Slide of PAS Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) is the act of intentionally providing an individual with the means to die. The act is executed by a doctor either by performing the act or by counselling an individual about drugs that can assist in making the process achievable. In most countries PAS is surrounded by a lot of controversies hence making it illegal. In America, PAS has contributed much in the history of medicine and most…

Death Penalty should deter crimes! Have you ever thought about what the death penalty does or how it makes people think differently? The book, Capitol Punishment, by Adam Marzilli it explains the death penalty makes crimes decrease in the United States. In the magazine, Will death sentence put an end to Human Trafficking, by Beijing Review explains that the human trafficking could stop, or at least decrease. In the newspaper, New York Times, Death Penalty Assumes New Political Overtones,…

Is Naturopathy Real Medicine? Naturopathic doctors (or NDs) are in fact licensed to perform minor surgeries, and prescription drugs, even though they prefer to find all/any alternatives available before doing so. Naturopathy is defined as “a branch of medicine in which a variety of treatments are used to heal illness using a system of medical diagnosis.” (Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, edited by Laurie Fundukian. Gale. 2009. Web.) The same can be said for much of medicine, however. To go…

Pros and Cons for a Free Market of Healthcare in the U.S. A free market represents the ability to perform an exchange between two or more persons. This voluntary agreement can comprise of money being exchange for goods or services. An example is the child who receives an ice cream cone from the ice cream man in exchange for a dollar. Both parties partake in the transaction because of the perceived benefit each is to gain. The child delights in the treat, while the ice cream man has an extra…