Essays on Waiting List

Xenotransplantation: Article Analysis

Xenotransplantation: Article Analysis Xenotransplantation involves the transfer of organs, tissues, or cells from animals to humans. The practice has been a point of focus for years. Several experiments and studies are being done in an effort to make it as safe and beneficial to human beings as possible. It began due to the need to supplement and provide an alternative to human organ transplantation. However, there are health, ethical, legal and cultural implications that must be considered. The paper explores the topic through a focus on its definition, a summary of the article, and an analysis of my views ...

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

The rise in imprisonment in America over the past years has risen at an alarming rate. The United States of America prison population has increased from about three hundred thousand inmates in the 1970’s to over one million inmates in recent years. Statistics show that America has the highest number of inmates in the world (Pfaff 173).The so-called “war on drugs ” which attracted long prison sentences has acted as a major factor contributing to the increase in the prison population (Golembeski 1702). Between the years 2003 and 2010, the prison population rate in the state of Georgia ...

Organ Donation

Abstract Increasing rates of organ donation is essential in maintaining a good healthcare system. The number of individuals waiting for an organ continues to increase with time, but the number of available organs is not increasing at the same pace. Understanding the reasons why people do, and do not, join the organ donation register is an important first step into creating campaigns that can increase awareness of the issue and get more people to enroll in the organ donation register. This research report covers some of the recent research on why people join the organ register and the barriers ...

This analysis considers the cost behavior of the various cost items in order to determine the cost and profit at various levels of activity. Fixed costs are costs that do not vary with changes in output. Variable costs are costs that change with changes in output. Semi-variable costs are costs that are partly variable and partly fixed. Stepped fixed costs are costs that remain at a particular level of activity but step-up to a new level when activity level exceeds a particular point (Drury, 2012). In this case, the cost items are classified into either fixed costs, variable costs, ...

Intrapreneurship Plan

Business

Executive Summary Even top companies are facing difficulties when it comes to finding the most suitable innovation that will bring forth a considerable success for the business. On the other hand, sailing into the vast ocean of entrepreneurship does not mean doing it alone because the business has several talents on board that could contribute ideas for business innovation. In the food and beverage industry innovation can be observed in the number of technological platforms integrated into the food service in order to create more value to the products and services and ultimately to provide convenience. For the ...

Over the past years, it was listed that more than 100,000 Americans are said to need organ transplants. There has been a consistent growing demand for internal organs such as the heart, the kidneys and the lungs for which the supply is lesser than the demands. Eighty percent of those who are in need for organ transplants demand kidneys the most because of the increasing cases of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. To have higher chances of recovering these required organs, individual States in the US have made it easier for the people to make themselves donors whether using ...

A referral system is a system used in health institutions to transfer safely patient care services across different departments, such as referring to a specialist, conducting assessments and treatments, and coordination of services for complex patients. An automated referral system is online. An electronic form is filled out with information about the patient and the primary care provider and the reasons for the referral request with relevant exam results and case history. Upon getting the request, the specialist reviews the form and begins to manage the case. The speciality aims at ensuring that the patients get the needed care ...

Transplantation of organs is one of the greatest achievements of science till now as these transplants save the life of people who are suffering from serious medical conditions. Organ donation is a life-saving medical process that involves the removal of organs and tissues from someone who has died and transplantation of those into someone who is suffering from some serious medical illness or dying ("Organ and tissue donation", 2016). The organs that can be donated may involve lungs, heart, kidney, pancreas, bone tendons, skin & parts of the eye such as the cornea and liver. The donor of one organ ...

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THE “DEAD-DONOR RULE” IN THE ETHICS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Abstract Organ transplantation has given rise to numerous questions in the minds of the medical professionals of the world across the globe. There have been an enormous number of unanswered questions regarding the ethical issues about the concept of organ donation and organ transplantation. In this paper, we will discuss the role of dead donors rule and brain death in the context of organ donation. It has been seen since years that different parts of the world and different people of the medical fraternity have different definitions of death. For ...

Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT) The founding of the ONT in 1989 was a great leap for mankind’s health system. Throughout the years, Spain exerted a lot of effort to encourage volunteers or donors to contribute for the welfare of other people, especially those who are extremely ill. This transplantation system offers creating organs from stem cells, artificial organs, ending body rejection, machines to keep organs alive, and printing 3D organs.

The Problem

The main problem about the system is its lack of innovation that is essential for an organized service distribution. For example, there are recipients on the ...

In April 2002, three hospitals combined to establish the King Edgar Hospitals NHS Trust with the objective of enhancing the services and decreasing duplication. The Trust was under a tremendous pressure to reduce waiting lists and sorting out of other managerial issues such as delays in discharges, inaccurate admissions of patients to wards, poor relationships with social services, high number of patient complaints. In response to this situation, the Executive Director of Nursing, Tracey Burns, was appointed to take the lead .

Team Work

Burns in concert with three assistant Directors of Nursing formed four groups that targeted a varied aspect of ...

Speech Outline:

- Lack of enough reserve of body organs in the hospitals lead to loss of many lives. These losses need not be there while the people can rally means of preventing them. - Statistics indicate that many are in the hospitals awaiting organ transplants - While only 1 in 4 people get the organs, the others die while waiting for transplants or get to a diseased state where they cannot be helped. - The reason as to why there is a shortage is because there are regulations that make the sale of human organs illegal. - Advantages ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Answer 1

As per a health report, around 5 people in United States die every day waiting for organ to be transplanted. The Health Care department is concerned with the shortage of organs and increasing demand on the other hand. At present, around 100,000 patients are in the waiting list for a donated organ which includes, kidney, hearts, liver and intestines. Furthermore, as the population grows older and with increasing health care issues in US populations, this scarcity and pressure seems to grow as waiting lists are growing at much higher rate than the supply of organs.

Answer 2

Since, even policymakers are concerned ...

Introduction

There are different ethical issues in the medical field just as there are in many other fields. Learning how to address them before they arise is critical. The decisions involved in organ procurement and allocation can at times involve ethical dilemmas. The main aim of organ transplanting is to reap medical benefits including saving lives and increasing the quality of life. All the necessary protocols should be observed so that the interests of all the parties involved including the donors, allocators and receivers are considered. There are different individuals how hold different positions regarding what is ethical and whether ...

Introduction

People’s decision to become an organ donor is largely influenced by their religious beliefs. Different religions have different views on the subject. It involves social, legal, and ethical questions, which each religion approach in different ways. In this regard, this research aims to answer the questions of how religion influences a person’s decision to become an organ donor and how serious a concern this is. These questions are important because of the organ shortage crisis that the world is experiencing. There has been an increase in the demand for organ transplantation throughout the world because of the increase ...

Amy’s Bread is the brainchild of a woman who quit her job as senior marketing executive and jumped into this bakery business. From the experience she acquired from around the world; she finally ventured in Manhattan to implement her idea of serving specialized handmade breads to customers. From her initial business operations in 1992, her innovative breads have always tantalized the taste buds of the customer, which has resulted in a demand which her company finds challenging to meet (Goethals, Sorenson & Burns, 2004). Amy’s Bread serves 50 wholesale customers that include hotels, restaurants, and gourmet food shops in Manhattan. ...

There are 40.4 million elderly (+65 years) living in the American society in 2010 (Administration on Aging, 2011). They live all life in a house they might have purchased in their prime, pay off the house loans and wish to move out of it. There are varied reasons for moving out of the family home. For some it is health reasons, for others it is family reasons. The option to live away from families stems out of the fact the family home does not provide the care or environment for an aging person. There are a number of seniors who seek ...

Today, society allows people to donate organs, place their organ donor status on their driver’s license and at hospitals when signing in, but the government and FDA are against the selling of human organs. This legislation has been in place since 1984, when the National Organ Transplant Act banned any type of financial compensation for organ donation ("Financial incentives for organ donation," 2010). The question arises if there is a difference. I believe that just like paying your taxes, one should indeed have the rights to do as they please with their bodies. It should be within one’s ...

One of the pressing concerns that still pervade contemporary societies is organ donation and transplantation. Most of the issues include addressing ethical concerns such as distributing or allocating the number of available organs to the number of waiting recipients; and accepting payments for donors of organs, to name a few. Due to the expansive issues that continue to exist in organ donation and transplantation, this particular concern remains unresolved until contemporary times. For simplicity, the argumentative issue that would be discussed in the current discourse is the issue of accepting financial remuneration for donors of organs. In current times, the ...

Reflection Paper

Conflicts are a natural consequence of interactions because of the diversity of the people who constitute the environment. Though people naturally tend to look at conflicts from a negative perspective, it is an undeniable fact that conflicts are normal and necessary in any functioning organization. When well resolved, conflicts have a way of releasing a persons creative energy and reorienting them to engage more on productive activities . For proper conflict resolution to take place, there must be a process of genuine negotiations among the conflicting parties for purposes of bridging the gap that was created by the conflict, and charting a new way for the ...

Organization Design- DRIVE Case Study

DRIVE (Diabetes Rewards Issued Via Everyone) is a program that was implemented at Austin Health Center (AHC), which is one of the health facilities at Cook County. This program was implemented after a survey that revealed that the health center neighborhood is inhabited by minority African American who has limited access to medical care since there are limited health care providers and most of the diabetes patients are not insured while others do not qualified for the public medical aid.

In addition, the program, AHC has limited finances and resources to meet the high demand for health care by the diabetes ...

Introduction

a) Attention getter As you are sitting here today listening to my speech, one person has been put on the waiting list for a donor transplant in the U.S. Every 11 minutes a new name appears in the long queue of expectants of a second chance for life. Approximately seventy five of them will receive their transplant today, while for the other 20 it will already be too late... b) Defining the mood and reaching to the audience It is hard to imagine the feelings of a person, who spends every minute, every second of his or her life waiting for the ...