Running Head: DESCRIBE AND EVALUATE THE ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN MEDICARE-FUNDED ORGAN TRANSPLANTS Student Name Describe and Evaluate the Ethical Issues Involved in Medicare-funded Organ Transplants HSM542 Health Right/Responsibilities Keller Graduate School of Management Describe and Evaluate the Ethical Issues Involved in Medicare-funded Organ Transplants An organ transplant is defined as procedure in which replaces an unhealthy and failing organ with a healthy one. It entails relocating an organ from a perspective donor’s body into the body of a patient whose life ultimately depends on it. Throughout the course of history, the procedure of organ transplantation has soured far beyond extreme limitations and various technicalities to become as successful as it is to date. Such tremendous breakthrough is significantly attributed to developing a multitude of methods that consist of combing two blood vessels that are normally not together (comely referred to as vascular anastomoses), controlling the immune feedback, and devising safeguard solutions which warrants extended time frames of storage while maintaining function. On the contrary, in order to fully examine the ethical issues associated with Medicare-Funded Organ Transplants, one must first understand the historical significance.
Myths have developed surrounding the law and ethical principles in end of life care, which can make care provision at the end of life complex and fraught with potential dilemmas. This article examines three of the most common myths related to the provision of palliative care and highlights their inadequacy when set against the ethical and legal principles on which end of life care pathways are based. the following end of life decisions (Quill et al 1997, Taylor 2003, Veterans’ Health Association National Ethics Committee 2007): Withdrawing or withholding life-prolonging treatment. For example, the care team might decide not to start a patient on ventilation, dialysis, artificial nutrition or hydration, or antibiotics. Alternatively, having
In an article reflecting on organ donation it states, “There are many reasons why people suffer end-stage organ failure and need an organ transplant and why others are not accepted as organ donors” (“Becoming a donor”). These people would be included in those who could reject the policy. Other people included would be anyone with religious complications or anyone with personal issues about the care of their body being used after death. These people will
The questions still remains: why can’t the American people provide the best and most effective medical care for all of our elderly citizens? And, how can we accomplish this goal and fund it in a fiscally responsible way? Research still needs to continue in order to resolve these questions. Conservatives criticized Medicare because it is a nuisance to the party’s ideology, which views the private marketplace, not government, as the solution to society’s most pressing social problems. By applying the strengths perspective, which uses human strength and resiliency as a guide for helping individuals overcome personal obstacles and challenges, conservatives would rationalize that older adults should plan for their retirement many years earlier, preparing a way to provide their own medical care.
Some may agree and some may argue with any of these but they are still in our world. So, with donating, selling, and human trafficking, there are choices that are made and people’s values that are put to the test. Organ donation is one of the ways to give or receive organs. Organ Donating is the surgical process of providing one or more organs to be used for transplantation into another person. Organ donors can be deceased or living.
Gastric bypass surgery may not only help with obesity but it is believed that gastric bypass can help in treatment with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and sleep apnea. But there are many risks involved with the surgery, including death in about 2-3% of patients within one month of surgery. Gastric bypass surgery is an extensive procedure. Most qualified clients have a BMI of 40 or more and are morbidly obese. Clients planning to have gastric bypass surgery meet with a variety of specialists to determine their eligibility..
Physician Assisted Suicide Why is it only ethical to die “naturally”, after a long illness filled with highly “un-natural” life extending medical procedures? Over the last twenty years, physician assisted suicides have become a sensitive issue in governmental offices as whether to legalize such an option. Even though many religions prohibit suicide and the intentional killing of others, and some believe it violates a portion of a doctors’ Hippocratic Oath, Physician Assisted Suicide should be a legal option for those with terminal diseases or conditions because reasonable laws can be constructed which prevent abuse and still protect the value of human life. Physician assisted suicide is the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration
A terminally ill or severely disabled patient has the right to a living will which insures the choice of whether or not to resuscitate is upheld. Living wills are set up to support the choice of a patient in their right to die as naturally as possible. On the other hand a living will can be used as a safety net when patients make the choice to be kept alive at all costs. It is when a patient does not have a living will on record that conflicts occur between families and even sometimes our
I will use a reflective model to describe any changes that I have encountered. In the UK, the system that is in place is the ‘opt in’ approach; this system is a more respectable approach to peoples wishes, individuals have to give their consent by signing the Organ Donation Register (ODR), this would allow their organs to be used for donation after death. However, there is a shortage of organ donors in the UK, making long waiting lists for people on the transplant list and many will die waiting. Some Politicians and the British Medical Association (BMA) would like to see the UK adopt the ‘opt out’ (presumed consent) approach. This would mean that every individual in the UK would be willing to donate their organs after death; this would be done by signing the ‘opt out’ register.
For as long as I can remember patients who are in need of an organ have been placed on waiting list. It’s unfortunate because some of those same patients do not live long enough to successfully receive an organ transplant in time to possibly live another 10 or so years with less pain and suffering (AlexanderBerger, 2011). If