Running head: The Medicated Child The Medicated Child Abstract In this report, I am going to place my views on a PBS television documentary called Frontlines, The Medicated Child. The documentary show the large increase in children who have the diagnosis of ADHD that are believed by many doctors to be misdiagnosed and indeed thought to have bipolar disorder. I will express my viewpoint on prescribing anti-psychotic medications and my disbelief on the parents of these children. The Medicated Child The video on the Medicated Child made me mad and quite sad that there are parents in this world that are so willing to give their children anti-psychotic medications with little or no knowledge on what they are putting in their bodies. It was stated several times that these anti-psychotic medications are used to treat adults with bipolar disorder and their side effects have never been studied in children, so these parent are using their children as what I would call a “lab rat” some sort of science experiment, unbelievable!
Another story brought to my attention was Baby P was failed by police, social workers and lawyers. Due to a catalogue of errors which lead to the toddler’s death at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend. Steven Barker the mother’s boyfriend battered Peter to death. If social
Shayla Mercer WGU Texas Online EFT Task: 602.4.17-10 I chose to discuss childhood inoculations. Would I inoculate my child as per the Center for Disease Control’s recommendations? The answer is yes I would. There are two different viewpoints on this particular topic. There are parents who view that it is unnecessary and not safe for your child to be vaccinated and there are the parents who believe you should get your children vaccinated to make sure they stay healthy and won’t get a deadly disease.
Mary was pronounced dead. Doctors believed at first she had died from a stroke. However, over the course of the next three days, the death toll would rise. Extra- Strength Tylenol capsules tainted with cyanide would be responsible for Mary Kellerman and six more deaths.
Female infanticide became more prevalent in the 1900’s. It was considered a disappointment to a family to have a baby girl. The most common method before the discovery of abortion was drowning the girls. This was done by plunging the baby headfirst into a pot of water until the baby died from suffocation. Another method was to suffocate a child in ashes or by covering her mouth with a paper soaked with vinegar to cut off oxygen to the body.
They claim that this has been going on for 30 years. PCB’s are very dangerous. It is said that some of the fish were deformed or adnomoral. PCB's can be very harmful to humans, especially pregnant woman. If pregnant woman eat a large amount of contaminated fish from the Hudson River their children are more likely to be born with birth defects.
Jacques Roy and six others from North Texas were indicted in the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. history (CBS DFW). Dr. Roy and the others have been accused of cheating almost $380 million from Medicare and Medicaid between January 2006 and November 2011 (CBS DFW). He owned and operated Medistat Group Associates, an association of healthcare providers that provided home health certifications and performed home visits. Home health certifications are needed prior to Medicare paying for these services. According to court documents, between January 2006 and November 2011, Medistat certified, “more than 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries for home health services and had more patients than any other medical practice in the United States”.
Four years later, she was admitted to the school clinic, supposedly to have her appendix removed. It was years later that Muir learned that she had been sterilized.” (Unknown, The Sterilization of the Intellectually Challenged) The Famous Five are supposed to be a group that supports and aids others; ironically the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, that they helped to pass, was hurting others. If history books do not record everything, both negative and positive, the suffering and agony felt by Muir and others like her, will be forgotten. In doing so, everyone would live a lie; that all famous figures were and are perfect. Plus, Members of the Eugenics Movement saw themselves as nation-builders.
At a support meeting of parents of a teenager with polysubstance dependency, a parent states, "Each time my son tries to quit taking drugs, he gets so depressed that I'm afraid he will commit suicide." The nurse's response should be based on which information? * Addiction is a chronic, incurable disease. * Tolerance to the effects of drugs causes feelings of depression. * Feelings of depression frequently lead to drug abuse and addiction.
For many people the main concern with assisted suicide goes with the competence of the sick patients. Many of the ones that are in the final stages of their lives have requested doctors to help them in exercising active euthanasia. It is sad to realize that these people are about to die and that to them the only hope they got is through assisted suicide in order to end their suffering. But the thing that really matters is what they want for themselves, if they want to end with their lives because there is nothing else to be done and they don’t want to suffer more than they should have the right to commit suicide since that’s what they want for their lives. The most important thing that everyone should think about is dying happy, maybe all of the people that have committed assisted suicide, left this world feeling better since they don’t have to suffer more.