Medical ethics

The only people that come to see you anymore are the nurses that take care of your body. Are you even alive anymore? Surprisingly enough this is how some terminally ill patients spend their final days. California Medical Association board concludes that “despite the remarkable medical breakthroughs we’ve made and the world-class hospice or palliative care we can provide, it isn’t always enough”. After all treatments have tried and failed; what is left? In many states there is no other option;…

correct worth ending your grandfather’s life when there is still a chance that he could recover. Euthanasia is the practice of ending a human life, with the person’s consent, either through a specific intentional act or by withholding life sustaining medical treatment (Heather Newton). Some say that Euthanasia is to end suffering and pain, but to what extent is it considered homicide? Homicide is the deliberate and…

Within a principles-based approach to ethics, the dilemmas of involuntary treatment are a subject that the mental health team are faced with on an everyday basis. There are four core principles when dealing with moral dilemmas: Autonomy, Beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. The debate about the effectiveness of community treatment all concern the ethical dilemmas for Medical practitioners in regards to receiving consent, autonomy of the consumer, coercion…

Euthanasia is one of the biggest and endless controversies of legal ethics, health care and religion of this decade, since the society is still intolerant about these issues regardless of the advantages that this act may bring. Yet, according to Lewis and Black (2013), “[c]ountries like Netherland, Belgium and Switzerland practice euthanasia but strictly follows a criterion that applies to an individual’s request for assisted dying” (p. 865). Legalization of euthanasia does not mean that it…

terminally ill would become discouraged because not many people are flattered at the idea of their own death, however this is why it should be our task as citizens to offer them hope for a future, so that they do not make any rash decisions based off of medical evidence that is not full proof which may cause them to miss out on a cure for their disease or care that could ease their sufferings. By allowing euthanasia, we devalue human life and the concept of hope and fight by basically saying…

provided two different sets of opinions— one had known her for a long period of time and denied her request. The other deemed Helen depressed and not in the correct mental capacity to make the decision to receive assistance in death. Rather than an ethics committee reviewing Helen’s case, she utilized her right as an American citizen to receive a different opinion from another physician, one whom would grant her…

favor of physician assisted suicide. However, he states that engaging in physician assisted suicide destroys the autonomous agent, and destroys the idea that they are acting in an autonomous manner. Safranek would say from the viewpoint of care ethics, that the doctor has the duty to cultivate certain feelings such as respect, and benevolence between themselves and the patient. These feelings are essential to carrying out the duty to meet the obligations that the doctor has with the patient,…

the words physician assisted suicide many of you may be wondering what exactly this entails. (CNN) A. There are many terms that are thrown around about what physician assisted suicide is. 1. The term physician assisted suicide is defined by the Medical Dictionary as, voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician. Physician-assisted suicide is to be distinguished from the withholding or discontinuance of…

not to promote physician aid in dying or even provide a stance on the subject. Rather, the purpose is to question the moral distinction between physician aid in dying and the doctrine of double effect. Through defining these two terms and analyzing medical cases where killing a patient is morally permissible, I argue that there is no moral distinction between physician aid in dying and the doctrine of double effect. Originating from “Thomas Aquinas’…discussion of the permissibility of…

Beeeeeeeeeeeep. The heart monitor flatlined as the pancreatic cancer patient was injected with poisonous serum. Through a painless procedure, the patient’s suffering was permanently ended. However, the precious life of this individual was also permanently ended due to the use of one controversial technology: euthanasia. Society’s concern is whether or not this technology should be permissible or forbidden. The underlying question is simple: Has euthanasia reached the point in which it becomes…