Hospital's owners Castlebeck, apologised and suspended 13 employees. NHS South West said it was "appalled" and the Care Quality Commission said there was an "unforgivable error of judgement" in not investigating earlier abuse claims. Hillcroft Care Home, Lancashire - Research In October 2012 six care workers were arrested in connection with abuse in Hillcroft Care Home near Lancashire. The police were called into the home of May that year, after a complaint from staff. Five nurses and one matron
Unit 6 Case Study LS501: Ethics and the Professional Karen Sweeney April 19, 2012 MEMO To: The File From: Ima Lawyer Date: April18, 2012 Re: Last Meeting As the General Counsel for ABC Company, I attend confidential planning meetings with ABC’s executives. At a recent meeting, Charles, ABC’s Chief Operating Officer, revealed the tanks at the waste-water storage facility were leaking. If the water is not released from the tanks, they could explode. Until Maintenance can repair the leak, the company’s best option is to dump highly toxic water into the sewer system to relieve the pressure on the tanks. He also wants to keep the leak and the plan to discharge confidential.
He was a stockbroker at one point, but fell victim to the economy and lost his job December 9, 2008. The mother is 51 and a breast cancer survivor that works two jobs to support her family. One of the jobs as a receptionist in a hair salon and the other in a local college campus office. Both parents have a high school diploma. The son recently graduated from Albany college with a degree in communications.
Of the $500 she made a year, she put $200 away to attend graduate school (Pioneer 807). In June of 1918 Lancefield became a technical for a Streptococcus study at the Rockefeller Hospital (Pioneer 805). At this time, classifying streptococcal bacteria had a very difficult method and was in a very messy state. After moving back to Oregon with her husband for a year, they returned to New York and Lancefield continued with her work with Zinsser, whom typically didn’t like women in his laboratory but made an exception for Lancefield due to her history in biology/bacteriology. It was here that Lancefield began her work with Streptococcus viridians, which was suspected by the medical community to cause rheumatic fever.
The Pearson v. Chung case, also known as the “pants lawsuit”, (Lexis-Nexis, 2008) engaged an attorney in the Region of Mexico who, after asserting the loss of a pair of his trousers, sued and charged the dry cleaning business for $67 million. The situation became the breaking point in the debate in the United States over tort change (Lexis-Nexis, 2008). What are the facts? There is some fundamental information associated with the two cases. 1- The Liebeck v. McDonald’s story involved a seventy-nine-year old lady, Ms’ Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a retired sales employee (Cain, 2008).
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”.
Case Study Assignment The case study that I have been given involves a new physician assistant named Joe. Joe’s daughter is feeling ill; so he decides to take home a specimen collection kit to his home to collect samples from his daughter. He then sends the samples to the lab for testing. There are many different problems that I see when I first read the case study. After researching and reviewing the Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant Profession, I conclude that Joe’s behavior is deemed unethical.
Runaway Jury Essay The Runaway Jury by John Grisham draws you into a story of power. While the widow of a man who was killed by lung cancer, after smoking for most of his life, is suing a tobacco company, the reader finds out that this is not a normal trial case. Usually the side with the most votes gets their verdict, but now there is a single powerful person who controls all of it.. The plot revolves around Pynex, it is one of the ‘Big Four' tobacco companies in the United States. They are being sued by Celeste Wood who was the wife of a man who died from lung cancer; he smoked all his life which led to his diagnosis.
John SONNELAND, M.D., Petitioner When Suzan Berger went to see her Physician Dr. John Sonneland on July 1, 1993 for abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, severe dumping syndrome, vomiting and a 40-pound weight loss, she trusted him with the health problems she had been dealing with. Her symptoms began at age 22 and at age 27 she had multiple surgeries. Dr. Sonneland reported that Suzan told him she was taking various drugs, including Tylox, a narcotic for pain. She disputes this fact. She stated she gave him a written release to contact her previous physician Dr. Federic E. Eckhauser, at the University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, to obtain her medical history, but did not list Dr. Hoheim, her former husband, as a past medical provider and did not give the Petitioner permission to contact him.
Management and certain workers should acquire education on drug seeking behavior among patients and workers (Harldorsson 2007). Clinicians need to be taught about the regulations concerning control use of substances and the ethical rules and regulations that follow them. It is essential for doctors to understand their moral duty to their patients and to their employers. Cases concerning ethical violation tend to destroy the reputation of the employers (hospitals), ruining the name of the hospital. It is the work of the health practitioner to acquire knowledge on how to help a patient who gets control drugs from online pharmacies.