Did you ever wonder why it seems to take ages getting to the front of a queue? As referred to a survey done by an auction site, throughout our lifetime we spend six months waiting in a queue, which is nearly equivalent to three days over a year. What makes the survey more interesting is, it revealed just hanging around on platforms waiting for the train, or queuing at bus stops, actually takes up 653 hours over a lifetime. These scenarios proved that a queue is indeed a common every-day experience. Nevertheless, what is a queue and what makes a queue a fair and ethical queue? A queue is generally being defined as a line people or things waiting to be attended or to proceed, usually in sequential order beginning from the front or top of the …show more content…
This is because it does not concern with the abstract principles such as first-come first served that promotes equitable and fair access to resources and socially valued commodities (Zajda, Majhanovich, & Rust, 2006). In multilevel queuing system, social justice and equity collide as if an organization achieves social justice for one group of customers (main queues) then it will have created inequity for another (priority queues) and vice versa (Matthew, MacLaren, Gorman, & White, …show more content…
Most of the times, queue skipper did arouse us to anger but the feeling slipped away soon after the incident and we just accepted it with the thought of “I am having another unfortunate encounter or day”. We do not see the unfair queuing system as having any major impacts on our lives and our societies. This may be due to the fact that queuing is often being related with waiting for the service in theme parks, banks, supermarkets and for public transportation, something that are rather predictable and inconsequential. However, what if we are actually queuing for life? One of the most common queuing for life examples is queuing for organ-transplantation. Besides having the patients being assessed to necessary clinical needs and benefits such as the blood compatibility rules, the likelihood of deterioration and numerous factors that can contribute to patients’ urgency for surgery, what is going to happen if a medical institution decided to also consider the priority queuing where the rich will be saved first by having their names move to the top of the waiting
very close to 70% (69.44%) as 70% of the customers prefer to toast. Question 2 A To make sure the 7th customer is not served right away, the maximum or the arrival time of the 7th customer, end of service time of the 6th customer at station 1 and the end of service time of the first customer at station 3. The max of the first customer was used to ensure the queueing discipline is first come first serve, and the first customer who enters will be served before any proceeding customers.
All good people in a modernized, functional world would deserve justice. Yet, despite this fundamental, governments worldwide have shut down amazing fights and causes with legislation designed to oppress. History is running over with hard times, cruel fights, and devastating wars over this argument, so why is it seemingly impossible to implement a system in our worlds that would let strong fights for fairness stand a chance? At their own times and by their own methods, Henry Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. asked this same question. Both parties agree that equity is an imperative quality in a working society, and brilliantly took to their opposers to push that it was the people’s responsibility to act against cruelty in government.
It seems that there isn't a single time of day where one has a seat. In fact, during rush hours, getting a seat on the subway is roughly equivalent, statistically, to winning the lottery. Yes, the subway sucks when you have to stand, but what if you had to stand in a train that is 100% full? What is "the maximum torture factor?" In other words, what is the maximum of the number of people that could fit in one entire 10 car train,
During the previous decades, society’s behavior with regard to organ donation remains reluctant. A survey showed that although people plainly accept to offer their organs for transplantation, when a person dies, his or her relatives often refuse donation. To be able
The Choice of Life or Death Choosing between life or death is not a decision that you want to make. Of course pretty much everyone is going to choose life over death, but is some cases you don’t have that choice. In the article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, written by the author Joanna MacKay, she presents an argument about whether or not the sale of organs should be legalized. She builds her credibility by giving numerous facts, examples, and statistics on the argument. People die everyday waiting and hoping to get the call about finding a match for a kidney so that they can have a kidney transplant done.
In Tony Mirabelli’s writing, “Learning to Serve”, Mirabelli completes an ethnographic study of the service industry. Mirabelli writes on a topic he is quite familiar with, being a waiter. Mirabelli discusses the complexity of being a waiter, although most of these complexities are unknown to people outside of the discourse community. Mirabelli uses his ethnographic study to undermine criticism towards waiters. The main critique Mirabelli rebuts in his writing is that being a waiter does not require skill.
More than 120,000 people died last year while waiting for a donor, donation of organs costs nothing (“Why be an Organ Donor”). Becoming an organ donor opens up various options such as organ donation or body donation. Body donation is where the bodies will be given to universities or schools around America, where the students of medicine department will do research on the body to figure out why the organ failed (“Body Donor Program”). The body will not be presented to the public and after it is researched it will be cremated and returned to the family as ash 's (“Body Donor Program”). With that being said some of the organs will be perfect to donate, but some may not meet all the requirements for donation , such as correct blood types, free of sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes, and mental health issues ( "Saving Lives and Giving Hope by Reducing the Organ Waiting
Jordan Owens Philosophy 101 David Killoren 11/26/2014 The Survival Lottery In John Harris’s article The Survival Lottery, he proposes a situation where a potential strategy would be to kill a healthy individual in hopes to use his or her organs for transplantation, thus saving numerous lives at the cost of only one. However the dispute presented by Harris, which he claims to be lucid, does indeed raise a certain ethical disgust.
According to MacKay’s research, in the year 2000, “2,583 Americans died while waiting for a kidney transplant” (120) and according to Matas, “over 6% of waiting candidates die annually” (2007). "With over 60,000 people in line in the United States alone, the average wait for a cadaverous kidney is ten long years" (120). As the reader can see, MacKay is very credible with stating factual statistics in regards to the urgent need of kidney donations and she has Matas to back her up with similar statistics. These statistics show the reader that MacKay’s argument is a strong
There are nearly 100,000 people waiting patiently on organ transplant waiting lists, but sadly, on an average day, less than 80 people receive donor organs and approximately 19 die waiting for transplants. Even with
Nevertheless, “Health care providers will never be given enough resources to satisfy all demands placed upon them by a community that is becoming increasingly informed and demanding” (Capp, Savage, & Clarke, 2001, p.40). In addition, due to the scarcity of resources, it has become debatable whether health care is a privilege or a human right (Bodenheimer, 2009). Therefore, limited resources make rationing unavoidable and ethically complex. Rationing can be described as the limitation of potentially beneficial resources to a patient due to resource insufficiency. An example of rationing in medicine is the process for organ transplants.
The office was quite busy due to the ongoing flu epidemic. Upon arrival, there was one person in the waiting room, five that arrived later, and at least 5 in the exam rooms. Being a doctor’s office, they utilize a combination of prioritization based on the level of illness or injury followed by appointments, then walk-ins. The waiting time to get into a room was 38 minutes or 33 minutes past the appointment time, and several patients that arrived later had already been taken back.
Within 2016, 33,611 transplants were performed, these statistics show the large percentage of how unlikely it is for thousands of people to not receive a transplant. Expanding further into the waitlist, about every 10 minutes another person is added to the waiting list and 20 people die each day waiting (Organ Donor, n.d.). From examining these statistics, it appears as the ratio of those receiving and waiting is very uneven. Due to
Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.
This means 90 people will be added to the waiting list during a day. How many people die in the USA per day then? Just in the USA it dies over 6000 people per day, which means that if every person in the USA donated their organs, we wouldn’t have a waiting list to organ transplantation in 14 days. As an organ donor you have the possibility to choose to donate the organs or tissues as you specify or any needed organs.