After a demand Terri's husband won for a malpractice sue from one of the many surgical procedure she had to face in their trials to stimulate her brain and try to recover some function, a whole storm of family discrepancies, legal issues in courts and also the hand of politicians covered their lives. After 8 years of hardly trying to do everything for Terri's recovery with no signs of hope or just the minimum improvement , her husband ask to remove the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG), which is a “ flexible tube placed through the abdominal wall and into the stomach that allows nutrition, fluids and/or medications to be put directly into the stomach” 2 . This PEG tube was maintaining Terri alive preventing malnutrition and dehydration. According to Terri's husband, she would not want to live in that condition and this was expressed in court after court. In an article published in 2005 , Dr. Joseph J. Fins stated that “this was a right-to-die case”.
After going through experimental drug treatment, which were unsuccessful, Mrs. Adkins decided to contact Dr. Kevorkian. Janet Adkins was still living her life as normal as any other healthy person. She was not debilitated by her illness. According to Dr. Murray Raskind, Mrs Adkins personal physician, she and her husband belong to a right to die organization, known as the Hemlock Society, and that Janet Adkins did not have the patience for the Alzheimer treatment that Dr. Murray had administered. It is claimed that Janet did not want to continue living her life if her illness could not be haulted.
(Franicis W. Gagnon vs. Joan G. Coombs, 1995, p. 145). In February 1991, Mrs. Gagnon was placed into a nursing home, wherein Frank, their son, and Joan’s brother, came to live with his father in Shelburne. At that time Frank learned of Joan’s arrangement, and convinced his father to revoke the power of attorney, which was executed on February 28, 1991 which Joan was never informed of (Franicis W. Gagnon vs. Joan G. Coombs, p. 146). In April, 1991, Gagnon was hospitalized, and Joan’s mother died, unaware that the power of attorney had been revoked, Joan, created a "Medicaid Qualifying Trust" that provided Gagnon, as beneficiary, with income for
Therefore, the hospital had no option but to abide with the laid rules. For this reason they had to treat Mr. Bartling and not fall into his wishes. The doctor’s opinion was that Mr. Bartling’s case was not terminal therefore he could live for at least a year if he was “weaned” from the ventilator. However, weaning was not likely due to Mr. Bartling medical and psychological problem that were not under control. It is also argued that Mr. Bartling was not medically fit to make meaningful decision because of his vacillation.
Terri Schiavo entered a persistent vegetative state in 1990 and would end up spending fifteen years of her life there. Doctors saw no hope for Terri and Michael, her husband, claimed it was his wife's wish to not be kept alive. Michael wanted her feeding tube removed, but Terri’s parents refused to let that happen. They hoped everyday that their daughter would somehow recover. Eventually, a bill was passed by George W. Bush, which gave hospitals the power to remove patients from life support.
The Early Years Theodore Robert Cowell was born on November 24, 1946 to Louise Cowell following her stay of three months at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Vermont. Ted's biological father, who was an Air Force veteran, was unknown to his son throughout his life. Shortly after his birth, Ted and his mother moved back to the home of his grandparents in Philadelphia. While growing up, Ted was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents and his natural mother was his older sister. The charade was created in order to protect his biological mother from harsh criticism and prejudice of being an unwed mother.
Although Sandra was not conscious and could not make choices herself, the staff tried contacting her next of kin, when they were unreachable they took matters into their own hands to help Sandra. It was not noted in the case study what happened after medical attention was given to Sandra, but it was in good faith that the doctor choose to give Sandra medical attention right away due to the severity of her wounds. Dignity often rises from one person to the next and in this case I feel all three ethical principles were
One thing throughout the movie that irritated me was Peter’s parents trying to pressure Nita & Peter into trying to get the Heather the cochlear implant. She should have respected their decision. They did do research and met with families and came to the conclusion that it was not the best interest for them or for their daughter and the grandparents should have respected that decision. I feel like there is no right or wrong in these kind of situations. Pardon my language but it’s one of those damned if you and damned if you don’t situations.
So the government needs Universal Health Care System to protect people without insurance companies. For example, there is a tearful widow named Roland who blames an insurance company for denying her husband a possibly life-saving bone-marrow transplant. She said if the insurance company could give money to her at once, her husband could take a stone-hearted misanthrope and could not die (Sicko). In this case, if government had Universal Health Care System, even if the insurance companies would deny responsibility, people could still be protected by Universal Health Care System. By the ways, some people asked why some insurance companies could deny responsibility.
This could be regarded as the distribution of moral justice, choosing on which principle they are morally obliged to follow (Steinbock, 2007, p22). “When principles contingently conflict, no supreme principle is available in the four-principle approach to determine an overriding obligation. Therefore, discretionary judgment becomes an inescapable part of moral thinking in our approach” (Beauchamp, 2010, p44). The respect for autonomy obliges health care professionals to ensure patients understand all the information they require enabling them to make an informed choice. If patients have the understanding to make an informed choice then the professional must respect the autonomous choices they make (Childress, 1990).