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Medical Ethics Questions

Medical Ethics Questions. By: Morgan Venz. What are these Questions?. There are many questions surrounding medical ethics some include Does a child have the right to refuse treatment Should surrogate mothers be paid Should people be allowed to sell their organs

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Medical Ethics Questions

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  1. Medical Ethics Questions By: Morgan Venz

  2. What are these Questions? • There are many questions surrounding medical ethicssome include • Does a child have the right to refuse treatment • Should surrogate mothers be paid • Should people be allowed to sell their organs • Should physicians be allowed to help be commit suicide • Should their be a cap on mal practice pay outs

  3. Why No easy answer People can’t agree for various reasons including Different backgrounds Different values or morals Arguments over some of these very questions has been ongoing for years

  4. Seeing Both Sides? • If everyone saw both sides of any of these issues their would be no issue • Because then they would have an educated opinion • They would also be able to see where other people are coming from • Making it easier to come to an agreement

  5. Con’s to organ selling • It is against the law • People may become blinded by money and not understand the risk • It has potential for abuse • Cheapens life • In some cases such as egg donation the risks have not been fully evaluated • Do it because out of the kindness of your heart

  6. Benefits of organ selling • The law has already created a black market • Urgent growing need is not being met with current system • Donor is giving and has to pay with non-tangible thing • My body my property • I should benefit along with the recipient • People can already donate blood for money • People make decisions for money all the time

  7. Regulations • If organ selling were to become legal. There would have to restrictions to protect form abuse some of them would include • Tight restrictions on who can donate • A contract between the buyer and the receiver • Risks would have to be disclosed • The lab would have to run tests

  8. Surrogate mothers should not be paid • Basically organ selling • It make pregnancy a dirty task • Only the wealthy can afford it • It is not a dependable source of money • Military wife's abuse the insurance known as tricare when they become a surrogate

  9. Surrogate mothers should be paid • Most surrogates could really use the money • Surrogates a lot of the time are alone during and after the process • Surrogates suffer very real pain • It lets them make money doing something they enjoy • They have to let someone else into their life's • They go through the emotions • They feel they deserve their insurance

  10. There should not be caps on mal practice pay outs • Mal practice is the #1 cause of accidental injuries and deaths • Caps make victims pay instead of the harm doers • Caps create a problem in proportion of payments and injuries • Just places more costs on the victim • System is already corrupt in that victims continue to be compensated for less and less

  11. The benefit to the general public of caps on mal practice payouts • Physicians are scared of being sued • Making them hyper- cautious providing unnecessary care • This in turn raises healthcare prices • Mal practice caps would be one solution to this problem and drive down health care costs

  12. Assisted suicide is wrong • Changes the role of a doctor from a healer to an executioner • Makes the right to die a duty • Goes against the idea that every life counts • Not researched very well

  13. Other options • There are other options such as hospice care • Which focuses on comfort not a cure • The goal of this care is to maximize the quality of life of a person • But still it is not always enough

  14. Last resort options • Some last resort options include • Intensive pain and system management • The right to forego life sustaining therapy • Voluntarily stopping eating or drinking • Sedation to unconsciousness • Some of these are considered ethically correct others are not

  15. Options are good • Assisted suicide and all of these other options give the patient choices • Talk to them • Support them regardless if you agree

  16. No, a ahild should not have a say in their health care • A child can’t weigh what the consequences of his choices • Adults learn with experience and a child hasn’t lived long enough to have that • It exposes a child to harm over something they can’t understand • It show’s we don’t place a high value on a child's life

  17. Yes, a child should have a say in their health care • The right to refuse treatment is fundamental regardless of age • Practitioners have a responsibility directly to the child • A child should have an opportunity to make important decisions • It can to harm to the child emotionally harming their dignity and self image

  18. It is their Illness • They are the only true expert on what ails them • They know the limits of their body • Samantha • They have to live with the pain • 11 year old boy • Hannah Jones

  19. Bibliography • Unknown. "A Child Can't Weigh Life and Death." Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) 13 May 2008: A.20. SIRS Researcher. Web. 24 November 2009. • Susan Pigg. "Respect Grows for Sick Kids' Wishes." Toronto Star (Toronto, Canada) 11 Dec 2008: L.1. SIRS Researcher. Web. 24 November 2009. • Lazar, Kay. "Doctors' Fear of Lawsuits Tied to Added Costs of $1.4b." Boston Globe (Boston, MA) 18 Nov 2008: A1+. SIRS Researcher. Web. 28 December 2009. • Michael J. Saks. "Capping Malpractice Damage Awards Is the Cruelest Idea in Decades." KRT News Service Aug. 14 2003: n.p. SIRS Researcher. Web. 28 December 2009. • Quill, Timothy E. "Physician-Assisted Death in the United States: Are the Existing..." Hastings Center Report Vol. 38, No. 5 Sep/Oct 2008: 17. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010.

  20. Bibliography Cont. • Campbell, Colleen Carroll. "When the Right to Die Becomes a Duty." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) 28 May 2009: A17. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010. • Gary Jason. "The Market for Body Parts." Liberty Vol. 21, No. 10 Oct. 2007: 33-36. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010.  • Roni Caryn Rabin. "As Demand for Donor Eggs Soars, High Prices Stir Ethical Concerns." New York Times (New York, NY) 15 May 2007: D6. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010. • Hennessy-Fiske, Molly. "A Dream Transferred." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) 11 Mar 2009: A.1. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010.   • Henry Chu. "Wombs for Rent, Cheap." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) 19 Apr 2006: A1+. SIRS Researcher. Web. 05 January 2010.

  21. Picture Bibliography • www.flickr.com/ • jp.inmagine.com/ • www.selftrading.co.uk/ • www.cyber... inois.com • http://www.echonews.com • archive.constantcontact.com • www.modernmom.com • /i.ehow.com • www.albany.com • www.burlisonlaw.com • /franciscanservices.org • www.blisstree.com • www.deathreference.com • i273.photobucket.com • /www.imagedj.com • /images.inmagine.com • /www.homeforlife.org

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