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What are these Questions?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– Should physicians be
allowed to help be commit suicide
– Should their be a cap on mal practice pay outs
WhyWhy• 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
Seeing Both Sides?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
Con’s to organ sellingCon’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
Benefits of organ sellingBenefits 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
Regulations 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
Surrogate mothers should not be paidSurrogate 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
Surrogate mothers should be paidSurrogate 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
There should not be caps on mal practice pay outs
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
The benefit to the general public of caps on mal practice payouts
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
Assisted suicide is wrongAssisted 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
Other optionsOther 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
Last resort optionsLast 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
Options are goodOptions are good• Assisted suicide and
all of these other options give the patient choices
• Talk to them• Support them
regardless if you agree
No, a ahild should not have a say in their health care
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
Yes, a child should have a say in their health care
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
It is their IllnessIt 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
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