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Medical Marijuana In discussion of Medical Marijuana, one controversial argument has been whether the herbal remedies is being overprescribed and more importantly, whether it’s potential risks outweigh the benefit. Furthermore, it is said to cure many diseases starting from epilepsy and anxiety to cancer and diabetes, along with many more. Others even maintain that the price and its side effects play an important role in the use of medical marijuana. My own view is that medical marijuana is an…

Harrison Bergeron In the short story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison stood up for what he believed. Similarly to Harrison, a couple of people I know felt they needed to stand up for what they believed in. Many people don’t stand up for what they believe in because of fear. While everyone else was afraid to rebel and stand up for what they thought was right, Harrison, who was just fourteen years old, was able to escape from jail. Although people feared him, his intentions…

The dominant trend in contemporary medical ethics describes ethical behavior in terms of the principles and rules that must be followed to bring it about, most notably non-maleficence, beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy. Practice of medicine has always been regarded as beneficial, good, and praiseworthy. At the same time, practitioners of medicine in different times and places were required to exhibit certain character traits and skills that were deemed necessary for the fulfillment…

“An assisted dying law would not result in more people dying, but in fewer people living.” This quote by Richard Branson shows the reasons behind assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is an option in certain places that allows patients that are suffering to end their pain through a physicians assisted death. When people have to make an end of life decision, one must take into account the patients suffering, the patient's quality of life and how much the family suffers while making the decision. The…

X-rays is one type of electromagnetic radiation that can send waves through the body which makes us see through the body tissue but it doesn’t go through the bone. Therefore it is used in hospitals to see if a person has a broken bone or any diseases. Because it can go through clothes and the human skin it is also used in airports to see if anybody has a knife or anything dangerous with them. X-rays were first discovered by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1985. Roentgen found x-rays…

The article by author James Rachel is a crucial criticism to the doctrine accepted by the doctors that is endorsed in a statement by the American Medical Association. The main argument is challenging the conventional doctrine of using passive euthanasia i.e. letting the patient die then active euthanasia i.e. killing the patient directly, even though the latter one is considered more humane than the former. He supports this argument by saying that for a patient with an incurable disease, it is…

Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Effects on Psychopathology Terror Management Theory The terror management theory posits that people build character and culture to shield themselves from the potential for anxiety caused by the awareness of their mortality (Greenberg & Arndt, 2012). Humans fear death, and from that fear, “the urge for immortality becomes an underlying role in human behavior and their social psychology” (Greenberg & Arndt, 2012, p. 401). There are two notable features…

The book is called Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach. Why choose this book? One reason for choosing this book is that death is very scary but also interesting. Everyone always is afraid of death of course that when it is in front of everyone what will they do? Some people will run away or get scared. Some will be the brave or just surgeons. Surgeons almost every day have to deal with many people but some are surgeons for cadavers. After reading the book it wants to show…

Is Animal Testing Worth It? Every year, nearly one hundred million animals --including mice, rats, dogs, monkeys, etc.-- die in many United States laboratories because of cosmetic, medical and biology testing, and experiments that serve no purpose. To understand the true terrors of animal testing, people need to know what animals are going through. Animals in laboratories suffer from day-to-day protocols and laboratory life, many do not even get a chance to experience fresh air or sunshine…

In the case, When Living Feels Like Dying: Ethical Decision Making with a Depressed Dialysis Client, which is described in the roleplaying description. Reamer page 51 tells us that the purpose of the NASW code of ethics gives us an idea of the code’s main function as well as the principle for dealing with ethical matters or dilemmas while in the human service profession. These ethics have a wide array of ethical principles and allows us to reflect the profession’s core values by having ethical…