First Case Study (2): A Patient’s Request for a Possibly Useless Treatment A patient with the flu named Jeff asks Dr. T if he can get an antibiotic. Dr. T knows that an antibiotic will be useless against the flu. Dr. T usually tells her patients to rest and drink fluids to fight the flu. But after explaining the situation to the patient, Jeff still wants an antibiotic. Should Dr. T honor Jeff’s request for antibiotics? Dr. T should not offer an antibiotic to the patient. It would be a waste of resources and money to give a patient a treatment that will be physiologically useless to them when the patient is uneducated. Is it appropriate for physicians to offer treatments whose sole purpose is to provide psychological comfort when that comfort
George Heirens, William’s dad, and William’s mom owned a floral business, but due to the Great Depression, it went out of business. After several failed employments, his father found a job on the police force of Carnegie Steel Company, which he worked his way up to a special investigator. After their floral shop went out of business, William’s mother worked as a fancy pasty maker in a baker and then she went to designing and executing custom made clothes. William has a younger brother, Jere, he is three years younger than William. There is allegation that family history includes insanity, epilepsy, alcoholism and mental defectiveness.
Ms. Gershon was deposed at 1 o’clock on September 1st at the office of Plaintiff’s counsel. Her deposition lasted a little over two hours and was the cities primary witness. Plaintiff‘s counsel examination was very easy going and non-confrontational. Ms. Gershon appears to be an older lady, but very put together, well dressed, and appears very educated. Her presentation was very honest and fourth coming. She appears to make a very good witness.
Although the family has requested that the doctor lie to the patient and tell him they are giving him a shot to “boost his immune system”, the doctor is held to a higher standard and is therefore responsible for any negative consequences
Dred Scott was born a slave in the state of Virginia around the 1900s or the nineteenth century. Dred Scott spent his whole childhood has a save. He served the family of Peter Blow and then as a young adult moved with them to Louis, Missouri. Then, in the early 1830s, he was sold to Dr. John Emerson. Dr. John was an army surgeon. Due to his profession, Emerson had to travel frequently and was appointed to various military posts. Well, Emerson took Scott with him to Fort Armstrong, Illinois in 1833 and Fort Snelling in Wisconsin in the year 1836. To emphasize, both of these forts were on free soil or slavery was prohibited. To add, Illinois was free under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and Wisconsin was free under the Missouri Compromise
The Civil War was a war that was fought in America between the years of 1861 and 1865. It included two sides, the North and South. Before the war started. there were many events that helped lead to this war. These events included the tensions growing between the North and South Side due to their different views on slavery. It also included the Dread Scott Decision and the Election of Abraham Lincoln.
The Civil War of 1861 – 1865 remains one of the most tragic pages in the American history. It claimed about 700,000 lives and nearly destroyed the unity of the nation (American Civil War). Naturally, such a massive clash could not have burst out inadvertently. Decades of differences between the North and South had led to a full-scale military clash. Two events cannot be overlooked when analyzing the roots of the conflict: the Dred Scott case and Southern secession.
With the antibiotics if H Pylori is confirmed, what would you educate the patient about these medications?
The client is already aware of his condition and wants to get better for his wife Nikki. He hates his illness and wants to control it but refuses to continue taking his medication. Pat states that the medication makes him feel foggy.
When a client seeks treatment, they have a reason. Among those reasons are self-deprecating beliefs and maladaptive life views.
The most frequently reason for prescription of antibiotics was abscesses, 170/464 (37%). The most widely used NSAIDs were Par¬acetamol (Acetaminophen), resulting in 270/464 responses (58.2%). The most commonly prescribed antibioticswas Amoxicillin (n = 344, 74.1%). Only 4.4(8.8%) of the participants followed the WHO guide for good prescription. Female students showed significantly more errors than their male counterparts regarding the dose and drug’s brand name; p=0.002,p= 0.030, respectively. There was a significant reduction in prescription errors with the increase of the students’ educational level (p=0.001), and students from public universities showed more errors in knowing brand names and duration of treatment comparing to those from private universities
Yet, if managed care begins to dictate what treatments have to be used, then empirically validated treatments will be used against psychologists as a form of restriction that may inhibit the success of the therapeutic process (Scaturo, 2001).However, certain artful tactics involved in psychotherapy will never be completely removed, such as the development of a therapeutic relationship (Allen, 2008). With the rise of EVTs there is a possibility that insurance or managed care may dictate the exact treatment techniques that need to be used for a particular disorder, the art of psychotherapy will not be able to thrive in the future has it once did in the past (Hopko & Hopko, 1999). One way to prevent the complete loss of the art of psychotherapy is to use both the art and science together.
In the documentary, Addie had a slight infection but this infection ruined her life forever, it dilapidated her health to the point she needs consistent monitoring as well as put a stop on certain activities she can do. As Addie’s mother said, “it gave her time” (Young), antibiotics were the cause of Addie’s condition, my sister’s infection, and multiple other incidents I do not want situations to happen to me because I was prescribed antibiotics.
Based on this situation I would say do not provide the antibiotics to the person due to it being unethical. There are
Many doctors are reactive when it comes to treating their patients treating the symptoms as they come, and don’t focus on teaching their patients ways to avert the onset of disease. “Health psychology can be applied as preventive treatment or as treatment for a pre-existing illness.” (Fogel). Health psychologists have the opportunity to treat the physical needs of
be less likely to be infected by the virus(Carson-DeWitt). Antibiotics are only given to the patient if