Their professional responsibilities exceed any personal values they may have while on the job. At the same time, the HIM’s road is paved with unexpected ethical dilemmas that must be dealt with precisely as outlined by federal laws, regulatory rules and a strict code of ethics. The management of patient health information has been an area for concern for everyone involved in the delivery of healthcare since the recognition and need to document scientific research and medical discoveries. Medical science would not be advanced as it is today had it not been for the enlightened foresight of our early physicians and scientists who aspired to share and record their experiments and outcomes. At the expense of human subjects, great medical breakthroughs occurred that are still in practice today.
In the case study 1 ”Controversial Transplant a Success,” Steve Karnowski writes about the case of a 6 year old girl, Molly, who suffered from a genetic disorder that is seldom seen, called Fanconi anemia, which interrupts the body from manufacturing bone marrow and that would lead to her death. In order to solve that problem, her parents thought about the embryos research and decided to pursue that option. After that decision, the doctor fertilized 12 eggs from Lisa, Molly’s mother, and tested 10 of the embryos, froze eight of them, and discarded one embryo that tested positive for the disease. Then, the doctor selected one of the embryos, who they named Adam and who was genetically
The person who best fits this example is talked about by author Rebecca Skloot in her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Skloot talks about Henrietta’s life as a child,how her family suffered, and mainly how Henrietta’s dignity was breached. Skloot describes how Henrietta had no idea what was going on with her treatment when she says, “Henrietta knew nothing about her cells growing in a laboratory. After leaving the hospital, she went back to life as usual”(42). This shows how doctors and scientists never informed Henrietta about anything about her treatment, in the only hospital that would take her, Johns Hopkins.
Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny is also a key character in this book, as she too escapes with Lily, as they attempt to escape from the hatred they have experienced. In the “Secret Life of Bees” Kidd presents a strong message about racism. The novel is set in 1964, which is right after the Civil Rights Act in South Carolina, Tiburon. African American people still experienced racism; they do not have the right to vote even though the Civil Rights Act has already occurred. Lily’s African American nanny and also her only friend, Rosaleen was trying to vote, but the police put her in jail.
Days of rioting followed, which brought to light the true racial divide in the neighborhood. This story hit close to home because my mother lived and had her medical practice in the center of the entire melee. During the riots her medical office served as a makeshift triage for some of the many people injured. She was actually interviewed for this film, but did not make the final cut because of protest from me for fear of retribution. My fears were based on my ignorance of the situation as I was twelve hundred miles away at school in Gainesville Florida.
Cloning babies can cause mental deformities. Another controversial topic about cloning is that “It is tested on animals, women from third world countries, and many pregnant women” (Glassman 16). Luckily for Anna, she was healthy and designed properly by scientists. Cloning has many negatives and positive outcomes. Anna was born specifically so that she could give organs to her older sister Kate, who was diagnosed with cancer when she was only two years old.
The author also notes that many children in Brazil had died because of unprofessional and inappropriate health practices. This included the lack of antenatal and prenatal care for the pregnant mother, which led to still births or the death of children at highly premature ages. This affected the mental health of the parents of these children. For instance, Nailza exhibits odd behaviors such as speaking to the photo of her dead child. The author visited Brazil for a second time in order to study anthropology.
Throughout the story we observe the racism African-Americans endured during the Civil Rights movement, and the duties and responsibilities of an elderly woman. Although the 1940's were the turning point for the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans were still scrutinized by whites routinely. During Phoenix's trip to get medicine, she gets knocked into a ditch by a dog, and can't get out by herself. Eventually a white hunter helps her out. Although the man helps her, he immediately makes it clear that he has prejudice thoughts towards African-Americans.
My Sister’s Keeper In the movies My Sister’s Keeper, 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukaemia. Although Anna was only intended to donate blood from the umbilical cord after her birth, Kate was not fully healed, thus requiring further treatments involving Anna throughout her life. Due to her sister dependency, Anna is not able to live the life she wants, she cannot take part in extracurricular activities such as cheerleading or soccer. After numerous bone marrow transplants and blood transfusions, Anna is told that she needs to donate a kidney, to her sister Kate who’s experiencing renal failure at the age thirteen. Knowing that her parents will force her to donate a kidney to her sister, and weary of the endless medical procedures Anna decides to sue her parents, Sara and Brian Fitzgerald, for medical emancipation, or the rights to her own body.
Health checks were not always helpful though; if a woman was found to have a disease, she would be evicted from the brothel and sent out in to the streets, where she would often still work as a prostitute, despite her condition. Early in the century, attempts to close brothels began. The fear of syphilis was running rampant, and Henry IV shut down brothels in 1504. They reopened a year later with decreased numbers; by that time, most women had scattered across London. In 1546, Henry VIII got rid of brothels again with a proclamation stating that it was an end to “toleration of such dissolute and miserable persons as have been suffered to dwell in common open places called the stews without punishment or correction (for) their abominable and detestable sin.” (Castelli).