Sadly their mother Corrine facing financial destitution has no other option than to agree to her children been locked in the attic of her parents home away from society. The children were often informed as sins and children on the devil because there mum ran away and settled down starting a family with her uncle. The kids were forced to live in a 2 bedroom suit with a bathroom attached. With one meal a day the kids are losing enthuse and are desperately growing confused, Corrine decided’s to inform the kids about the secret door in the closet that leads to the attic. She wants Cathy and Chris to take care of the two young ones and turn the dusty old room into a secret get away for them.
Her Vietnamese memoir seems to be focused around the themes of survival, coming of age, the nature of war and the importance of tradition. Le Ly tells the story of many of the village people including herself and her mom with most choosing to continue fighting for the right to live long after it seems human endurance would have been exhausted. Le Ly and her mother are examples of this will to survive. Le Ly speaks a lot on her childhood. When she was born, Le Ly is a tiny infant weighing only two pounds at birth and her mother is told that the merciful thing to do would be to suffocate the baby.
This can be a difficult concept for health care providers taking care of these patients. Religious beliefs and medicine can sometimes clash with one another and can interfere with a patient’s recovery time and healing process. Scientology, Native American Spirituality, and Buddhism are different religions found throughout the world and their approaches towards medicine have some differences from Christianity. Native American Spirituality utilizes a holistic approach toward medicine which involves purifying and cleansing of the body. A traditional form to cleanse a body is by using sweat lodges.
The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients. In Plato’s argument, he asserts that essentially, healthcare should be served in a manner that reflects the interests of the greater good. At what point does the greater good become more important than an individual though? Dr. Craig Wax asserts that in Plato’s society “physicians responded to the needs of the state by devoting resources to the workers, in the process ignoring the elderly, very young, critically ill, and those who were considered genetically inferior. Such practices can lead to vile immorality and atrocities.” By all accounts, empathy is one of the most important qualities in a humane society.
Infibulation is the most extreme type of FGM. The clitoris, the labia minora, and most of the labia majora are removed (Dirie and Miller 190). Dirie stated when she was about five, her mother told her the gypsy woman would come any day. In most cases, a nomadic [gypsy] woman, usually in her later years, would perform the surgery without any anesthetics or sterilized equipment. The night before her mutilation, Dirie was given extra food, as it was considered a celebration of her passage into womanhood (Dirie and Miller 191).
“Patient-Family” Centered Care versus “Disease-Based” Approach to Health Care Medicine faces several critical and conflicting challenges. The tremendous and changing cultural diversity of our population requires physicians to develop new skills in communication and negotiation with their patients. But managed care constraints, litigation, and growing regulatory pressures have compromised communication and trust between physicians and patients. This, along with the surge in technologic development, has driven the medical system even further toward a “disease-based” approach to health care that views individuals as “cases” and undervalues the sociocultural and humanistic aspects of patient care. The results are a diminishing faith in the medical establishment and the rise of alternative medical philosophies and practices.
Jerry was accused of a medical malpractice because of prescribing a refill without the authorization of a physician. There were many legal and ethical issues that affected the decision Jerry made in ordering the prescription refill, and the knowledge of right and wrong deterred Jerry from deciding to refill the prescription. There are several methods and types of values at hand that Jerry could have used to help him make an ethical decision. Determining the appropriate course to take when faced with a difficult ethical dilemma can be a challenge, but it is always important to engage in a carefully considered ethical decision-making. Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions.
When I first saw the title of the article “Why Innovation in Health Care Is So Hard” I was expecting it to be another negative prognosis (pun intended) of our healthcare system. Even before reading it’s content, I could list many of the hurdles that people from all parts of the sector face that would be expounded upon; the pleasant surprise was the upbeat, practical messages that the presents, actually turning the very obstacles into assets! It is an interesting concept to consider that the major forces that hinder progress can actually be used to drive innovation. For example, key people, or “players,” are an oft overlooked force which, as is demonstrated, can literally close down an new initiative. Yet by recognizing how it will affect these key players, their support can be a powerful force to contribute to the success of new ideas or startups.
Kjell Asplund and Mona Britton, authors of Ethics of life support in patients with severe stroke, argue that there is a specific protocol that should be followed in order to deal with the multitude of ethical complications coma patients introduce. I disagree with this argument, because I think that the quantification of one’s life is an inhumane and ineffective method of treating patients. As an idealistic student aspiring to pursue allopathic medicine, I believe that the field I immerse myself in should not be an environment bogged down with impediments to moral action. Instead of a rigid method, I think that a case-by-case method remains the most appropriate action for patients with severe brain malfunctions. Before we delve into the moral implications surrounding care for stroke patients, it is important to understand what a stroke is.
It has been practiced by many people, of different cultures, from different eras, and for a variety of purposes. However different these variables may be, the underlying principle remains the same: healing. The ends are the ultimate goal, despite the means by which they are attained. I think this is the greatest discrepancy between the two - western medicine has many other requisites to meet before healing can be pursued. Upon an observation of a healing property, a medicine needs to be developed that contains such a healing property but also should not be easily replicable.