The Pros And Cons Of Medical Negligence

It affects everyone, and wasn 't a foreseeable event to avoid. Sending help to the natural disaster victims is completely different from the examples that Rand gave. Any truly moral person would help a natural disaster victim no matter the circumstance. In conclusion, Rand’s argument for the ethics of emergencies is not specific enough to be morally acceptable because it allows for the possibility of heinous acts and scenarios.

Ethics is a well-founded standards of right and wrong and involves feelings, laws, and socials norms. Although Charlie was exited about getting surgery to become smart and the doctors were nice enough to perform on him, they did not follow the correct steps to ethical thinking. Before performing surgery on someone you are suppose to ask important/mandatory

A doctor may have to operate even in the absence of consent, to save the life of the patient. It is possible that even with such an intervention, the patient may not survive. Assuming that the doctor is competent and has exercised due care and diligence, the doctor cannot be held responsible for a patient's death, as the doctor has acted in good faith and in the best interest of the patient. Maintaining a good Doctor patient relationship often works better than the best informed consent!

·Sometimes people excuse the damage they cause by saying this was a mistake or that they did not mean to cause the damage. Is this a valid excuse to avoid liability for damage caused? Explain your answer. With the above question about people that is liable to a damages due to their civil wrong and now finding an excuse to avoid damages. In law, there is no excuse and the defaulter would therefore be liable for their offence committed except if the judge in a court of law based of their reasonable doubt found that it was not proven true that such person would be liable for a damages.

Id. Our client likely does not have a viable claim because even if the conduct of Mr. Bega was mean it has not reach the level of outrageous, intolerable or extreme. In Harris v. Kreutzer, 271 Va. 188, the court has to consider if the action done by the doctor was outrageous. The patient sued the clinical psychologist for medical malpractice and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

(Keyes 206) Charlie now is completely certain that he will die, seeing all side-effects and the bad side of the operation. Last, the doctors were not supposed to harm him, even though that they probably knew about the outcome of the surgery, written in the Belmont Report, states “Two general rules have been formulated as complementary expressions of beneficent actions in this sense: 1. Do not harm and 2. Maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms.”

YES! People make mistakes,its called being human. Men are given the nature of human,because there is a reason god is called the almighty. Since no man is perfect in this world ,it is evident that a person who is skilled and has knowledge over a particular subject can also commit mistakes during his practice.

He was not a licensed or trained orthodontist for him to be able to perform any operation on the patients, which is a perfect example of the derelictions and the duty of the D’s. The four D’s consists of Duty, Dereliction, Direct cause, and Damages. Duty - when a health care provider found guilty of negligence owed a duty care to the accuser. Dereliction is when the person in charge violates the duty of care to the patient. Direct cause occurs when there is a failure to deliver the proper care that results in injuries to a patient.

’s turn to die. I don’t believe that we should have the power to decide one’s fate. An important part to recognize that is not talked a lot about in this topic is that if euthanasia and assisted suicide is illegal, then doctors won’t have the pressure and burden of having to take someone’s life, even if the person wanted it. These people are educated to be doctors, not killers. They are meant to use everything in their power to save patients, not take away their life.

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Introduction Patient Safety Christopher Hammett underwent disc replacement of the L5-S 1 joint (lumbosacral joint) on the 22 of April 2005 in Pacific Private Hospital. According to Coroner Hutton (2012) “The operation itself was uneventful and took about 53 minutes” and he’s oxygen levels were maintained at 99%. Once the operation was complete, Mr Hammett was extubated and transferred to the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) where he was under the care of two registered Nurses, Nicholas Turrell and Christine Proud. He was then discharged from PACU to the accommodation ward later that evening (Hutton, 2012).

If the student nurse decide to go away as Gerald has requested in respect of his autonomy she would have breached the duty of care and this would be considered as negligence. The word negligence is a tort law that regard individuals to exercise reasonable care in order to prevent harm that can be acts or omissions to any person. In order for negligence to have happened four elements must have occurred, these include duty of care that the nurses owes Gerald, breach of duty of care, harm caused by this duty of care and the result of the damage or harm that occurs (Johnstone, 2015). Employers are also accountable for employee actions, which means they are answerable to any actions, omissions and negligence.

Working in a sports related field requires some legal background when dealing with other individuals as it relates to injuries. Even though injuries may occur, sometimes they are minor but at times they are major injuries and one may feel the need to field suit. The purpose of this assignment is to understand and evaluate negligence and challenges that may affect interscholastic sports. This assignment assist of ten discussion question with a range of negligence challenges in today’s sports. I will address each question throughout this assignment.

Consensus Summary of Yolanda Pinnelas Case Study The purpose of this paper is to discuss a case study involving a 21-year-old patient, Yolanda Pinnelas, who was studying to be a musical conductor, and who was being treated with chemotherapy. The toxic medication allegedly caused severe deformity of the patient’s hand when it seeped out of the intravenous (IV) catheter and into the surrounding tissues with minimal intervention by the hospital staff noted. This malpractice case will be reviewed thoroughly by each one of the group members and a discussion of the issues relating to duty, documentation, liability, damages and more will be discussed in detail within this paper.

John could bring a negligence claim to court against PharmaCARE if he can show that the drug firm had an responsibility to act with ordinary or reasonable care toward a person or the general public. In this case, PharmaCARE being a drug company marketed the drug because it believed the drug to be safe and therefore had an obligation to act with ordinary or reasonable care by clinically testing the new formulation before being distributed. The defendant's action did not meet this duty, and the defendant's action or failure to act caused harm to the plaintiff. PharmaCARE had a legal duty to ensure that its drugs were clinically tested even though it was a new formulation. In not conducting trials on the new formulation, PharmaCARE did not meet