Response Paper - Whose Body Is It

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Response Paper: Whose Body is it, Anyway? We need to make many decisions in our life, and I believe that one of the biggest one is made in a hospital because this choice will be a life or death choice. Then, who is going to make that important decision? The decision can be made by patients themselves, guardians, or doctors. However, whoever has made that decision; it could be a right or bad decision. Even a doctor cannot always make right decision. In the article Whose Body is it, Anyway? By Atul Gawande introduces couple of cases which were happened when the author was surgical residency in the hospital. Doctors don’t have hundred percent confidences of results because it can go different way than they expected. Doctors are specialists of human body. They have better knowledge than normal people, so they can make a better or a smarter decision than any others. However, the results car not always coming what they expected. In the case of Joseph Lazaroff, after he discovered spine cancer, he had two options left. He could undergo spinal surgery or do nothing. If he undergo the spinal surgery, he will have at least small chance to have some strength to his legs and sphincters. But if he chose to do nothing, he would have best chance of dying peacefully. After all, he chose to undergo the spinal surgery, and even though the operation was technical success but Lazaroff would not recover. Finally, he had died without any testament. Some patients do recalcitrant with their own credo. Patients can refuse a surgery although doctors can expect what the result would come. However, the decision is going to make by the patients; furthermore, life or death are also on his quotas. In the case of Mr. Howe, he refused to have another surgery after all. He actually made bad decision because he could live if he accepted the treatment. Also, he had his wife and child which are very

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