Medical malpractice

Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana is a controversial topic. Is it safe? Why do some doctors oppose or accept the notion of marijuana for medical purposes? To understand the questions surrounding medical marijuana, you must look to the root of marijuana’s impact in the pharmaceutical world. Marijuana has a complex impact on the human body, meaning that it can be difficult to fully understand how the drug can work when exposed to an intricate subject, such as a chronic illness. The FDA has…

Have you ever thought about killing yourself? “Assisted suicide is a controversial medical and ethical issue based on the question of whether, in certain situations, medical practitioners should be allowed to help patients actively determine the time and circumstances of their death” (Lee, Stingle). I support assisted suicide because it stops suffering, it is humane, the grief period is shortened, and the cost to the family will decrease. All of these reasons and more are reasons why I support…

to go on living, it would be in the best interest of the family or of the society that the individual should choose to die. They may believe that the society would be forced to bear the financial burden of an individual utilizing such expensive medical care, and that such resources might be better allocated if they were used on those who were not beyond hope. For someone to act morally through his or her life depends on the different circumstances of a situation, but as long as the…

Many people think that all animal research is part of medical research - this is not true. Animal’s have feelings too and are living species, to put them through pain and suffering to test a product is inhumane, they endure pain just as much as we do. Animal testing is an expression that the vast majority…

In any historical non-fiction film, there are many differences from the movie and the real life event that happened. For instance, in Hacksaw Ridge Desmond Doss’ father comes into the courtroom to fight the case of his son being denied to enter the military and be sent to a conscientious objector camp. In the movie, Doss’ farther contacts his old commanding officer to get a letter preventing Doss from getting sent away to that camp. In real life, Doss’ father contacted the chairman of the…

I am currently a senior honors student at Bowie State University and have been a part of its honors program since August 2014. As an honor student, I am held to the curriculum of sustaining above a 3.3 grade point average and obtaining over 200 hours community service. I also had the privilege of partaking in events related to the program and attend monthly meetings. This year I was granted the opportunity of partaking in research to discover new cancer inhibiting macromolecules under the…

intellect due to his discovery of the circulation of blood. I understand that there are a plethora of scholars and scientist that have contributed to the science and artistry of medicine, however Harvey developed a new physiology that is still used in medical science today. In ancient times, the Galenic physiology stated that there were two types of blood, venous and arterial, which had distinct pathways and functions functions relating to the liver, the heart and brain. The liver was…

My opinion matters and so does yours! I think that animal testing is wrong and cruel and unhealthy for these animals to go through, some of these tests and researches cause pain and can even lead to death for some of these animals. These animals are being tortured, there are many different tests that these animals go through every day that cause them to suffer. Why would you even test an animal, If they will most likely not have the same reaction to the product, the medicine, or the disease.…

Sounds sad but sometimes killing yourself is the only way out. Suicide is a very sensitive topic that a lot of people don’t like to talk about. I on the other hand feel like it’s important to talk about these things; although for my family they don’t like to talk about it because four years ago my aunt decided to take her life. The official definition of suicide is, it is an act or instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally. There are several reasons why a person would take…

When the reaper snuffs out a life he takes with him many things. Some of the many things that death takes with him is the hope for that person to do something amazing in this world, the connections that the deceased person has made throughout their life, and lastly the knowledge collected throughout the life of that person. Age has a huge role to play with death because with different ages comes different feelings of loss. The death of the young (usually between 0-18 years old) carries a…