Medical ethics

The degree to which physical pain can be tolerated is different in all humans (Humphry, “Liberty and Death…”). One could only imagine the pain they’d be in if they were constantly enduring pain spasms, losing control of organ systems, and even endless coughing (Messerli). There is no purpose in letting a human being suffer endlessly until their body decides to give out. It would be a more human choice to let the patients decide for themselves if they want to end the suffering or not. Why let…

certain ethical standards and personal values that are highly based on the merit of having a professional life. It is without question clinical medicine is evolving into a complex set of decisions making that place Patients at the highest pinnacle in medical care. Medicine has been for years regarded as a field that help people in alleviating burden of a disease and reducing pain. People have questioned many factors into how clinical medicine has been used to treat patients who are often in…

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses that focus on relief from an illness’ associated symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a serious illness, no matter what the diagnosis is (Materstvedt, 2003). This kind of care can address and potentially change many of the factors involved in individual request for assisted suicide by providing respect, careful attention, and open and sensitive communication in the…

and outcomes emerge from the transition that has taken place and continues along the continuum of care. However, I do believe there are a couple aspects not considered in their theories. One is motivation for change including self-efficacy, two is ethics and its role in the patient transition. The Transtheoretical Model of Change, developed by Prochaska and DiClemente, explains and predicts how and when people will reject poor health care choices and adopt healthy ones (Giddens, 2013).…

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…

they had watched someone terminally ill die, and of the 57% 85% support euthanasia. Another supporter of the cause is Dr. Donald Low, he was terminally ill, and was diagnosed with brain cancer (healthy debate, 2014). Dr. Low was ranked high as a medical official, and made a video and how much he supported euthanasia for those suffering (The Globe and Mail, 2013). Dr. Low was becoming deaf and was blind in one eye. He was talking about how he was inevitably going to die, but with the option of…

Right To Die As medical technology advances, a vast amount of different opportunities arise, one of these being euthanasia of humans. Euthanasia is also called assisted suicide, but from a legal standpoint, it is debated whether or not euthanasia is considered murder. For some, they believe that euthanasia can be classified as murder because the doctor is the one who prescribes the lethal dosage of medication. But for patients who experience unbearable pain from a terminal illness, this…

The concept of euthanasia is an important aspect of Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck 's treatment of euthanasia evolves throughout the book. The first glimpse we catch of euthanasia is through the fate of Candy’s old dog. Carlson describes the dog saying “Ain 't nothing left for him. Can 't eat, can’t see, can 't even walk without hurtin’“ (47 Steinbeck). This paints the picture that this dog is old and miserable, but Candy loves the dog too much to just shoot it. Carlson who is the…

passive euthanasia. Most people think euthanasia should be an option available to a patient; however, the Christian religion states otherwise. The subject of euthanasia continues to be a contentious issue within today’s society. Euthanasia is an unjust medical procedure and all forms of the practice should be outlawed because it is extremely unethical. Euthanasia is a “deliberate act that causes death under taken by one person with the primary intention of ending the…

Euthanasia). The doctor stresses that euthanizing someone is equivalent to abandoning them. Even when a person’s condition seems impossible to fix, there is still hope. Thus, euthanizing them would discard all of the remaining hope. Also, since the medical professionals performing the operation are ending lives, they are forced to assume unique responsibility. This responsibility is one that is contradictory to what their job description entails, which is to restore and improve lives. In…