Argumentative Essay: Flowers For Algernon

Human Experimentation The looming concern of human experimentation was enough to deter some individuals from seeking the medical care that they needed for their well-being. The thought that trusted medical professionals had the power to perform unethical experiments on them while they were in their care was enough to let them live with whatever ailment that they had. By not seeking out the care that they desperately needed in some cases only lead to further problems. Several doctors abused their patients' trust for their own curiosities. Those curiosity-driven procedures led to many medical discoveries, cures, and medications.

All nurses and healthcare professionals are obligated to help patients and to follow through on the desire to good and not harm them. The doctors and nurses in the study did not hold up their obligation to give the participants in the study the best treatment for their disease. Since penicillin was being used for the treatment of penicillin in the 1940s, the doctors and nurses should have given the participants of the study the penicillin according to the ethical principle of beneficence. Instead of giving the participants the penicillin, the doctors and nurses continued with the original ‘treatment’ even though they knew it would not cure the participants’

This condition that he wrote is out of human control that infants die. With SIDS, Gawande explains that it "is not really a disease, but rather the name doctors have given to one of the great medical mysteries of our time" (203). What he has explained is that the condition is an uncertainty to the doctors, and presenting SIDS as a consideration would mean that the evidence for abuse would be questioned. Looking at Noe's case as an example, Gawande writes that SIDS would be in a realm of possibilities. His line of reasoning is that "the original autopsies had revealed no marks of force" (203).

“Flowers for Algernon” Argumentative Essay In the story “Flowers for Algernon”, written by Daniel Keyes, a mentally challenged, thirty-seven year old man named Charlie Gordon received a once in a lifetime opportunity- he may be able to triple his intelligence. The experiment- which was not tested on humans- was run by two doctors: Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss. The medical professionals were opportunists and would try anything for the experiment to work- even permanently subdue humans. Charlie dreamed that his chance to be an average, intelligent man would arrive. Charlie was blind to the hardships he would face.

Because of his motor neuron disease, he had to undergo a surgery that removed his ability to speak on his own. Regardless, he never stopped talking. Undoubtedly, his genius and knowledge would have been useless to anyone else if he hadn’t found a way to, somehow, communicate effectively. This must have been a great motivation for him to adopt his own way of speaking. Now he communicates through a computerized voice system.

Certain laws and bills have been put in place to discourage people from suing doctors for problems that are completely out of the doctor’s hands. The AANS, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, states that a “Bill is common sense, proven, comprehensive medical liability reform that will help contain health care costs” (Kindy). Doctors are constantly afraid and fearful that they will get sued for reasons that they can not explain. No doctor is safe from lawsuit abuse (Pear). Lawmakers understand this and they wanted to begin to put regulations on

The human error made by medical worker In the human error classification, Reason (1990) said “Greater understanding of the why of human error is provided by a popular approach based, in part, on the distinction between whether the inappropriate action was intended or not”. For example, the nurse who unintended brought the oxygen tank into the MRI room was considered as one of the human error in knowledge-based mistake, without the training of MRI equipment, she didn’t know that she could not bring the metal materials into the MRI

The biopsychosocial model is an extremely useful tool to physicians but it can also be argued that since its birth doctors have a more difficult job. With the old model, doctors simply had to consider the scientific matters. Now, doctors must probe deeper into a patient’s background. This may cause trouble for the physician as many patients complain when doctors want to take an extremely detailed history. Some patients fail to realise that this step is necessary for the doctor to make an accurate diagnosis.

Though scientists developed safer methods for injection such as giving the patient’s immune suppressants before the procedure or delivering viruses to cells outside the body, gene therapy was reconsidered and believed to be inhumane to experiment on humans. Some people wondered if it was right to alter an individual’s genes with such an unpredictable outcome while others considered the fact that due to the expensive nature of a gene therapy procedure, scientists may be developing a procedure that is only available to the wealthy (NIH, 2018). Scientists, while acknowledging Jesse’s death and the large expense of a gene therapy procedure, argue that gene therapy has many benefits and could be evolved in a way to benefit all people once more is known. A large benefit that is consistently argued is if scientists could have the means to research and make gene therapy possible, the future may hold the ability to fix genetic diseases in developing embryos. If gene therapy were allowed to be practiced to success, scientists could not only identify genetic diseases in babies but now take it a step further and inject a gene to cure the child so the baby would be cured and survive (Lewis,

If it were not for scientists like Pauling experimenting and doing research that was mostly disappointing, medicine would be unable to make the advancements needed. Anesthesia’s importance is obvious however, is also overlooked when discussing the seriousness of it. There are many risks to being subdued by medicine due to the body’s different reactions to certain drugs and situations. Research in this field must be ongoing in order to accommodate the needs of everyone that needs to have a surgery performed. This practice of medicine allows people the comfort of going into and coming out of surgery pain free.

But unfortunately, the experiment was also never clearly explained to them, they had thought it was just the best possible treatment expected to cure the sickness they might have had. Many unethical practices were evident in this study, in this case, the most important one was informed consent, which is a consent given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits. None of the participants in the Tuskegee study

Once a healthcare organization decides to hire an outsource provider, that provider then takes over the project that was assigned to them. This leaves the company in the dark when it comes to the IT project. Of course, outsource providers are not supposed to abuse their responsibilities, but companies run the risk of having that happen to them (Tesler, n.d.). In the end, it is important that any healthcare organization research on whether or not an outsource provider would be beneficial to their company. This is the only way to understand whether outsourcing would be right for the company or not.

It really started to experience critical change in the mid 1960s (Rothman, 1991). Specifically, medical secrecy from physician to patient was slowly being cut off (Rothman, 1991). Sir Prescott Hewett once said, “It was not sufficient for a surgeon to be honest, he must be chivalrous” (Carter, 1900, p. 23). Everything now that physicians have to do has to be examined by an institutional review board (IRB) to make sure that that the potential benefits to the subject or patient outweighed the risks, and no self-calculated scale of these risks to benefits was made (Rothman, 1991). Our ethical medical problems craved attention.

I agree, carefully searching for issues and questioning the MD would have prevented this issue. Obtaining the patient 's neurological status and checking the drug levels would 've prevented this problem. This is an indictment on the whole team, not just the nurse. I believe that each profession working on this team should 've noticed the issue. Also the phrase "I 'm ok with not making a big deal out of this" sounded nefarious and unethical.