Kettering Medical Center

Physician Assisted Suicide Picture yourself lying motionless in a hospital bed. Various tubes, wires and bands tangled over your body. Feeling as though all the life and ambition you ever had is being replaced with nothing but the side affects from the drugs pumped and dripped through your system. The very thought of control ceases to exist. You no longer have control over what leaves or enters your body, you lose control of sleep patterns, thoughts and ambitions; worst of all you lose…

It is important to recognize that in Meleis’ theory, many of the details are addressed in the type of transition, the facilitators and inhibitors in the transition and the patterns of response. I do think that the complexity science concepts are crucial in maintaining and providing long term maintenance of chronic illness and the trajectory of the client in their understanding of their illness. Complexity science illuminates the nature of the transition process and changes that occur while a…

Over the years, the amount of women in the medical field has increased tremendously compared to back in the days when the medical field was mainly occupied by males. For example, in 1970, only 7.6% of females were physicians in the medical field but by 2000, the percentage of women that becomes physicians increased to 24% which is a huge increase in a pretty short amount of time. Although the amount of women in the medical field has increased, the amount of gender discrimination moves such as…

The main argument in favor of mandating cognitive enhancements in the case of the cognitive enhancement Drug A would be the drugs ability to reduce medical errors by 20% and reduce the death rate by 5%. Any utilitarian argument would state that the value of saving a life is more important than any other moral argument against the use of the drug. However, the utilitarian argument fails to consider the…

a change in clinical experiences, the shortening of education time, and working restrictions all created medical personnel with deficiencies in their learning. Universities struggle with ways to best prepare clinicians. The Institute of Medicine’s report of patient safety issues has come to the forefront of educators and healthcare providers. Because of this lack of critical thinking, medical staff fails to recognize the deterioration of a patient, which results in poor patient outcomes (Robert,…

final year medical students, Amber was attending Sind Medical College and Ammara was attending Dow Medical College. The context of “The Right to Live and Die? A Perspective on Voluntary Euthanasia,” had a neutral viewpoint on physician assisted suicide and focused mainly on presenting both sides of the arguments regarding the practical use of euthanasia by doctors. They discussed the morals and reasoning’s…

use of medical marijuana has been a huge discussion topic in the United States. Many people argue the pros and cons of this drug being used for medical purposes. The large scale debate incases many different opinions on this drug. There are more patients that are claiming that marijuana is effective in treating symptoms from many different types of illnesses and disease. Learning more about the drug, the chemicals that can be extracted from the plant, can have the most benefits to the medical…

My essay is on Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and the code of ethics. Ultrasound Technology is referred to as a sonogram; it is a device that uses high frequency sound waves humans cannot hear to create an image of the inside of the body. This is typically used to see the stomach, liver, heart, a child in the womb, tendons, muscles, joints and blood vessels. There are many different types of sonography, such as, anesthesiology, cardiology, emergency medicine, obstetric, and neurology, to just…

I belong to a family where being a physician has become a tradition. Not long ago, none of my forefathers were educated. It all changed when my grandfather had a problem with his knees. The best doctors in the country advised a biopsy and a sample was taken and sent to the U.K. My family was shocked when the results reported a malignant growth and doctors advised an above knee amputation. How could a young, healthy and athletic man like my grandfather have such a deadly disease? A hero appeared,…

The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest binding documents in history. It was written by the physician Hippocrates and despite being written centuries ago, many doctors still take the oath and use it to guide them in the ethical practice of medicine. It states “First do no harm.” Throughout history, doctors has done as much as they can to treat and keep their patients as comfortable as humanly possible. But this line of reason begins to blur with the issue of physician assisted suicide. Joe…