Running head: FIGHTING FOR DEAR LIFE: AN ETHICAL CASE STUDY ON Fighting for Dear Life: An Ethical Case Study on Terri Schiavo Catherine Grace Bautista Adventist University of Health Sciences Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare HTCA543 Dr. Stanley Dobias February 24, 2015 1 FIGHTING FOR DEAR LIFE: AN ETHICAL CASE STUDY ON 2 Introduction Death is inevitable. However, for some of us, we fail to express our final wishes to our loved ones and this more often than not ends in
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The video should also define Atheism and Agnosticism, but not encourage them, because they would seldom provide any hope to dying patients. Atheists claim that a God and an afterlife do not exist and once one dies, their life ceases to exist. Agnostics defend that humans are unable to know whether or not a God exists and must be shown proof in order to believe. However, most agnostic and atheists who have encountered a near-death experience “eventually move toward a more spiritually guided life with
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The pancreas is located in the middle of the abdomen. It’s surrounded by the stomach, small intestine, liver and spleen. It’s about six inches long and shaped like a thin pear, wide at one end. It has three sections: wider right end is the head, the middle is the body and the left end is the tail. The pancreas has two functions; to make enzymes that help digest fats and proteins and the other, to produce insulin that controls the blood sugar level called glucose. It consists of Islet cells
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state. At the beginning, friends and family members came to visit but after a few years, people stopped asking about him, people stopped to visit him so his wife, Patricia, knew that something had to be done. The doctors refused to remove his feeding tubes. Therefore she created a petition to end his life. But the pro life supporters argued that she was abusive and cruel, inhumane and no better than Nazi murderers. So, in that case, my question to those people and to everyone here today is what
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When she was first born she had to be fed through a feeding tube until she was three or four years old. After she got off of the feeding tube she was doing well for a year or so. Recently she has been having issues again. There has been fluid around her heart that they have already removed some of but there is still way too much. They are examining
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GI lab was a very interesting experience. Today, 2/2/18, I was able to observe several procedures including two EGDs (esophagogastroduodenoscopy), two colonoscopies, a bronchoscopy, and a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube placement. For a few of my patients it was their first time undergoing a procedure like this and they seemed anxious and apprehensive. The staff in the room where kind and supportive to the patient. ‘The worst part is over’ is a phrase I heard over and over, in reference
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Euthanasia and Ethical Implications Thereof Euthanasia according to the medical dictionary is the act or practice of killing hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy and/or allowing said person to die by taking less than complete medical measures to prolong life. This type of act is also known as mercy killing or assisted suicide. Individuals who have reached the point when they feel they have no other options have often chosen to look into euthanasia
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presence of an artificial airway will hinder the patient’s ability to communicate When air does not pass over the vocal cords, sounds are not produced. Other methods of communication will have to be established Patient has an endotracheal tube present Assess energy level Fatigue and/ or shortness of breath can make communication difficult or impossible Patient gets easily fatigued if frustrated when communicating Anticipate patient needs and pay attention to non-verbal
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was noticed by doctor during morning round. Otherwise nobody will recognize and will give the dose as it is. And will lead patient to a serious condition. ISSUE 2 While giving tablets through NG tube, I have noticed that some nurses throw the medication when it was difficult to pass through the tube. In this case patient will not get any effect of the prescribed medication. This a serious matter in which doctor will start new drugs daily because he will be thinking there is no response for the
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s Disease Frederick Aladad Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that portrays progressive muscle paralysis, and eventually ends with death. As many as twenty thousand to thirty thousand people in the United States have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and an estimated five thousand people in the United States are diagnosed with the disease each year (Shiel, 2012)
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