Medical imaging

What is Marijuana? Marijuana is dried leaves and flowers of a Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant which is also known as pot, dope or weed. Marijuana is responsible for the mind altering effect on the brain. It is a chemical that distorts how the mind sees the world. How is Marijuana used? It is used many different ways, some people smoke weed in joint paper, glass pipes, bongs, and cigars formally known as blunts. Marijuana can also be cooked into edibles like candy, cookies, and brownies…

Assisted Suicide by Mark Friedman defines physician assisted suicide as a,” form of suicide in which a doctor or nurse provides advice, instruction, or materials to the person who commits suicide” (Friedman). Physician assisted suicide and whether or not it should be legal is an age-old ethical issue sparking severe controversy. The debate dates back to “Greek and roman philosophers”. (Ferguson) There are books, news stories and movies that have been made about the issue. As far back as 1998 60…

In the article Doctors debate the ethics of Assisted Suicide written by Elizabeth Aguilera and was published on May 18,2015. Dr Vincent Nguyen says that “We are here to protect the people who are sick, and we are here to promote health and in the event we cannot cure the person, healing can still take place”, he also says that “ the real reason that he is against assisted suicide is that doctors take the Hippocratic oath and that is why doctors go into medicine”. This quote helps because when a…

Euthanasia means: the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia has helped many people end their suffering rather than them suffering for the short period of time they have left to “live”. Physician-assisted suicide gives the people dying a chance to die with dignity. They are able to come to terms with their incurable sickness and leave this life while being at peace. Euthanasia should be legal for various reason yet…

Descriptive accounts of dissections of live animals from approximately 500 BC seem all too familiar in modern day with over 100 million animals senselessly killed in the United States for medical, educational, or business…

Most people may view death as a cold and painful embrace, or a harsh last step in their life’s journey, or perhaps a wall that will forever separate us from our legacy. A chilling thought indeed, but while a majority of people cower in fear in the face of death, other see at as their only escape from their haunting and excruciating pain, but they can’t take this final step by themselves. This is where physician assisted suicide, or PAS, and euthanasia comes in, the difference being that in…

Kylie Rdechor Ms. Garcia Argument & Rhetoric(1) 21 November 2017 The Consequences of Animal Testing Right this second in laboratories all over the world, millions of animals are being isolated into confined spaces as they are being forced to endure the agonizing pain of animal testing. Animal testing is the practice of monitoring the side-effects and defects a product may have on a nonhuman animal subject. Animals such as rabbits, monkeys, cats, mice, rats, and other species experience…

freedom to choose when they want to die. Secondly, Dr. Manning (1998) concludes that “the more compassionate treatment for such terminally ill patients is a quick merciful end since its treatment is generally far less successful than traditional medical and psychological means” (p. 42). People claim that by keeping an terminally ill patient alive you are putting them through unbearably pain and prolonging unnecessary suffering when you can easily just let them die a peaceful and merciful death.…

Conducting a Risk Assessment A 25-year-old patient has presented to the clinic today. The patient reports that she is homeless, a type II diabetic, HIV positive, and currently pregnant with a gestational age of 25 weeks. The patient also reports that she was previously seen at a community health clinic that has since closed due to monetary factors. At this point during the initial prenatal visit, the provider should perform a risk assessment on this patient. Prior to conducting the risk…

Legalizing voluntary euthanasia for terminally-ill adults is a way that dying patients can avoid unnecessary suffering and have the right to die with dignity. Mentally stable, but severely ill adults who request their life be terminated early do so for two main reasons: patients have peace knowing that they do not have to live in pain until they die and patients want the choice to die before they lose all quality of life. American patients who are on their last few months of life should have…