Essays on Medical Procedure

Introduction

A career in nursing seems fulfilling, but nurses encounter challenging situations every day. Regardless of their roles, nurses face ethical dilemmas that may affect them and the patient. Importantly, there is no right or wrong solution to a particular ethical dilemma. However, nurses rely on the legal papers related to nursing standard of health care practice according to legal aspects of nursing. This paper involves the standard and legal relation between nurses and their patient. Even with the nursing standard of health care practice literature, ethical dilemmas still occur in healthcare institutions. The aim of this paper is to ...

The ICD-10 code for stress incontinence associated with pelvic floor weakness and muscle incoordination in female is N39.3. The CPT (ICD-9) code for stress incontinence in female is 625.6. ("The Web's Free ICD-9-CM & ICD-10-CM Medical Coding Reference", 2016; "CPT Procedure Codes - Medical Procedure Codes", 2016) The 41 years old female complained urine leakage while coughing, laughing and when lifting heavy objects. She also experiences bladder leakage when lifting her 1-year-old child. The patient smokes and drinks alcohol occasionally. Review of the coding system to support the claim: First, I searched for the topic on ‘Pelvic muscle weakness’ in ...

The problem of verbal miscommunication has been always the central issue studied in sociolinguistics, sociology, psychology and communication courses. Everybody is aware of certain danger resulting from miscomprehension and its consequences in medical sphere have been claimed to be the most hazardous and insecure ones. Medical treatment requires an accurate and correct delivery of any message between different participants of communication. These participants are physicians, nurses, children, parents and other caretakers. Any breakdown in communication can lead to false prescriptions, inappropriate taking medicines and even mistakes during a surgical intervention. This paper aims to investigate the dependence of treatment ...

Cupp v. Murphy

Citation: Cupp v. Murphy 412 U.S. 291 (1973) Merits of the Case According to the circumstances of this case, a defendant named Daniel Murphy was charged with having murdered his wife. The couple did not prove to have hit it off for a long time and therefore, they lived separately. The story tells that the victim was murdered by means of suffocation in the territory of her home which was located in Portland City. The detectives found avulsed wounds and numerous bruises on the victim’s neck, however the investigation team assumed that someone out of the circle of ...

Introduction

Handling an angry or uncooperative patient can be a challenge to any healthcare professional trying to perform a medical procedure on the patient’s behalf. When a patient is faced with a sudden illness, he or she may experience overwhelming fear about the outcome of any testing or procedures that have to be performed. For many patients with no medical knowledge, testing brings with it more fear about what is going to happen during the tests. The role of the radiology professional is to maintain compassion while educating the patient about the procedure that is to be performed. In ...

The ethical issue which this paper wants to address is the normative set up in the patient doctor relationship. This is a highly paternalistic model. In this set up, doctors are the experts in medicine. Most patients have only scant and dependable medical knowledge. Hence, the overall trust in one’s medical practitioner is focal to the medical process and doctors carry the main responsibility for the patient’s wellness. The sole duty to decide on every crucial medical evaluations and decisions relies on them.

The patient-doctor patient relations must be a two-way street between the patient and the doctor because ...

Introduction

The definition of physician assisted suicide is slightly different from the general term definition of euthanasia. Although some may equate physician assisted suicide with the blanket term, the distinction between euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is that the latter is done with both the patient’s and doctor’s intent to end the patient’s life by unnatural means (Tamayo-Vela´zquez, Simo´n-Lorda, and Cruz-Piqueras, 678). The doctor assists the patient in committing suicide, usually by administering an injection or pill that contains a lethal substance. A doctor may also administer a relaxant to help keep the patient calm during the ...

The Tuskegee Health Experiment: A Question of Bureaucratic Morality? Were there precise moral and ethical issues that the case presents? Are they dependent upon race, color economic status, and/or geographical location? Why or why not? The government bears the responsibility for ensuring that all human rights are well protected. In relation to the Tuskegee experiment, both the government and health organizations are supposed to conduct researches that meet moral and ethical standards. There were cases of the people used in the experiment being exploited by the researchers. This is why the health organizations and the government wanted to ...

Introduction to Abortion

Abortion is the termination of pregnancy. There are two types of abortions; miscarriage and therapeutic abortion. In miscarriage, the embryo or fetus is instantaneously removed from the uterus of the woman. On the other hand, in therapeutic abortion, the embryo is expelled or removed from the uterus of the woman with the help of some medical procedure. In return, therapeutic abortion is of two types; surgical abortion and medical abortion. Surgical abortion is also known as manual vacuum aspiration. In this procedure, cervix (opening to the uterus) is dilated, and the embryo or fetus and placental tissues are removed ...

Introduction

The term “euthanasia” has been dubbed as a form of “mercy killing”, which can be accomplished by doing a particular act which is unlawful or by some act of omission that is considered as lawful. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) had become the most talked about controversial issues around the world. Euthanasia is referred to as the administration of drugs with the explicit intention of terminating the life of the patient at his or her explicit request (Siu, 2010, p. 169). On the other hand, the physician-assisted suicide or “PAS” is recognized as the act of prescribing or supplying of drugs ...

Increased rates of elective caesarean section procedure

Literature review Caesarean section or rather c-section is a medical procedure of delivering babies that involve a surgical incision on the belly and through the uterus. The procedure is used for delivering babies as well as removing foetus from the womb. It is usually, as a result of difficulty in vaginal delivery and also patients request for it for which it is pre planned. The use of this procedure has been widespread in the recent past and is mainly because of the advancement of medical technologies and surgeries (Drife, and Walker, 2001 p. 156) There are several reasons that explain ...

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Through the years, circumcision of male infants occurs worldwide for a variety of reasons. The reasons range from; religious, medical, cultural and even personal preferences. Though it is a widely practiced ritual, recent debates have seen debates rise over its importance and necessity according to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2010), arguments arise on the ethical, and human rights issues, and health benefits of infant male circumcision. Circumcision is a safe procedure; however, in some cases, there may be minor or major complications. The process involves the surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis. Before the process, anesthetic cream is ...

Suicide and suicide attempts in the western world have long been considered criminal and punishable. Ancient Romans and Greeks prohibited most suicide, or suicide among the healthy, and punished those who committed suicide by denying them proper burial rituals (Rosenfeld 24). In England and the American colonies, laws continued to punish individuals who committed suicide by denying them a proper burial and both English and American laws found anyone assisting in suicide potentially guilty of murder. In the last several decades, questions about euthanasia and, specifically, the legality of physician-assisted suicide have repeatedly found their way into the legal system ...

Anytime a nursing student is questioned as to why he/she chose nursing as a career path, the most obvious answer they usually give is that they had the intention of learning how to save lives. Today, if someone asked me why I decided to join the nursing class in college, I’m most likely to give the same answer. However, the actual reason as to why I decided to embark on this career path was, because I did not consider myself smart enough to pursue medicine. I never really wanted to be a nurse since I had a misguided mentality on the nursing ...

Abortion has been a contentious issue over time. The abortion issue has generated a lot of debate in the public. This has led individuals to pitch their tent with the two different standpoints – the pro-life group and the pro-choice group. The two standpoints have become established over time as both groups have various arguments for their standpoint. Abortion, as an issue, has caused an exclusive two-opinion movement which either stands for, or is against abortion. Either group pushes forward an argument to either support the act or condemn it in its totality. Abortion as an issue has been so much politicized ...

Transexualism is a sex coalescence clutter in which a person takes for granted the typical feature or trait and for all time acts the part of the gender opposite to his or her biological male or female gender. It is a severe disorder of a person's sense of erotic person’s individuality; where there is a strong want to be the unlike sex. The person may also believe that he or she is "caught in a trap" in a body of the erratic sex. Transexualism influence men to a greater level compared to how it has influence women. It is not clear as to what mainly leads to ...

U.S. American Health Issues, Health care system

Summary

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a novel about the family of Fitzgerald. At a tender age of two, Kate is diagnosed with leukemia and she urgently requires a donor in order to save her life. However, there are many attempts to find her a suitable donor, but all this is in vain. The novel is set in a span of two weeks where the author divides the scenes according to the day of the week. The story that happens within the two weeks gives a flashback from the points of views of the main characters in the ...

Medical Law and Ethics

Law and ethics are different disciplines which tend to interact in different ways especially in the medical profession. Medical practitioners face many issues in their medical practice that require other professionals such as lawyers, ethicists and risk managers to intervene. This is where law and ethics interact with medicine in order to ensure that the medical practices and activities are done in an ethical and legal manner. Medical law and ethics will guarantee safety to all medical practitioners as well as the patients in any medical facility.

Medical law and ethics requires the expertise of medical practitioners, ethicists and ...