Ethical Behavior In The Movie The Doctor

I have chosen to discuss the case of Terri Shiavo which was a very big ethical case back in 2005. She had been left on a ventilator for 15 years. So let’s start from the beginning. On February 25, 1990 Terri Schiavo had a cardiac arrest that was causes by extreme hypokalemia (low potassium) brought on by an eating disorder (Quill, 2005). As a result of this cardiac arrest Terri developed severe hypoxic – ischemic encephalopathy which is another way of saying lack of oxygen to the brain (Quill, 2005). During this period she exhibited no evidence of brain function and eventually scans of her brain showed severe atrophy of her cerebral hemispheres (Quill, 2005). Her electroencephalograms were fat, indicating no functional activity of the

The video presented the ethics and boundaries and factors that affect those boundaries such as addiction, abuse, absent role models, and patients assuming the professional shares the same feelings as he or she does. Then the video discusses issues the doctor may incur such as “special treatment” of patients, time management, poor awareness of feelings, and the response to the patient.

While private hospitals tend to be the preferred choice because they are not as limited in their budget and are known for quality service in which patients receive individual care

Write a short summary of a professional code of ethics, preferably one germane to your major or field (e.g., Code of Ethics of the National Society of Engineers; Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association; Code of Ethics for the Association of American Educators)

The movie The Doctor, has allowed us to see health care from a different perspective than we are used to seeing with that being from the patient perspective. This movie follows Jack, a doctor, and his experiences with receiving treatment for cancer. In the movie, Jack finally realizes that there is more to his job than just having a lot of education and being able to operate well on his patients. He sees what it is like to be the patient communicating with not only the doctor, but other health professionals as well. This is something that we need to be good at in the healthcare field due to communication being one of the biggest obstacles for patients when receiving proper health care.

The four principles of medical ethics include nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy, and justice. These principles were created by Beauchamp and James Childress because they felt these four were the building blocks of people’s morality. Nonmaleficence is to do no harm to others. Beneficence is to care or help others. Autonomy is to respect another’s wishes. These four principles relate to issues surrounding physician-assisted death in many ways. To begin, there are seven individual forms of PAD. They are the following; voluntary passive euthanasia, nonvoluntary passive euthanasia, involuntary passive euthanasia, voluntary active euthanasia, nonvoluntary active euthanasia, involuntary active euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Passive euthanasia is an act in which the health care physician withholds treatment or surgery and the result is the patient’s death. An example of passive euthanasia is a cancer patient refusing treatment and the physician agrees with their decision, therefore the patient dies from the lack of intervention to treat their illness. Active euthanasia is an act in which the health care physician has a direct contact with the patient’s death due to the physician’s act of doing something to the patient in order for them to die. An example of active euthanasia is an injection of potassium chloride. Voluntary is when the patient is requesting assistance to die. Nonvoluntary is when the patient is not requesting assistance and their wishes are unknown

In today’s health care industry, mechanical restraints are often used to maintain patients’ behavior and ensure their safety when treating the elderly and the severely ill (Gatsmans & Milisen, 2006). There are many variations of mechanical restraints, but all are defined as “any device, material or equipment attached to or near a person 's body and which cannot be controlled or easily removed by the person and which deliberately prevents or is deliberately intended to prevent a person 's free body movement to a position of choice and/or a person 's normal access to their body” (Gatsmans & Milisen, 2006, p.

All medical providers have a duty to protect the health and dignity of their patients. Even if that is the intention of the provider, specific ethical dilemmas in healthcare may arise making it difficult for the provider to make an ethically appropriate choice. Wit, directed by Mike Nichols, takes the viewer through the healthcare of Dr. Vivian Bearing, an English professor, as she embarks on an eight-month experimental treatment to hopefully cure her stage IV ovarian cancer. As Dr. Bearing undergoes this treatment, ethical issues arise regarding her healthcare that compromises her well-being and dignity. George D. Pozgar points out that ethics is concerned with values relating to human conduct that focuses on the rightness and wrongness of actions, as well as the goodness and badness of motives and ends.1 It is clear in the film that the actions taken by the medical providers, violated ethical principles within the scope of health care such as patient dignity and respect, patient autonomy, and consent to research/treatment.

Another unethical situation that is seen in the movie is what occurs to McKee after he has his biopsy done. While he is waiting for the results, a health care provider mistakes him for another patient. When McKee realizes what procedure the healthcare provider is wrongly trying to do, he tries to stop the healthcare provider but the healthcare provider continues and tells him “Mr. Brown remember that you needed to have an edema” which evidently McKee did not need to have done. I cannot fathom how anything of that nature could occur in a hospital. A mistake like that

In the given situation I believe that the Code of Ethics, while close has truly not been violated. The DTR is walking a thin line when it comes to their recommendations because anything in excess, even vitamins, can gave an adverse effect. I understand that he based this off a study, but there are studies done every day which does not make it a good idea to follow every study found. In the Code of Ethics in Responsibilities to the public it states, “The dietetics practitioner does not engage in false or misleading practices or communications.” I believe that following the work of a single study will fall into this realm. The DTR should receive more information on this study or this track prior to recommending the client takes the megadoses of vitamins.

Medical ethics could be considered a really broad spectrum that dictates the healthcare system. Defined as a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. This however, can become quite tricky when deciding what is morally correct to one person to another. The movie Patch Adams deals firsthand with an aspect of medical ethics. The movie displays Robin Williams as the main character, Patch Adams, as a medical student who believes treating patients with happiness is the best way to help them. (Patch Adams, Tom Shadyac)

Medical ethics are very important because it makes the doctors think if what they are doing and preforming was for the good and need or want of someone, or for their own good. This makes people not test on people like they are human test subjects to them. In the story

“…She’s somethin’ of a cunt, ain’t she Doc?” Although Milos Foreman’s character, Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), put his opinion of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in the most vulgar of terms, he was not so far from the truth. In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Nurse Ratched’s treatment and care of the patients was unethical when compared to the standards one would expect of a health care administrator. She used control over her patients to ensure order, without regard to the feelings and concerns of the patients. This issue is presented by the director, Milos Foreman, through symbolism, characterization and scenes. This, in turn, determines how the director wants us, as viewers, to feel about the issue.

My group was assigned the topic Deaf/ Hard of hearing friendly world adjustments and when thinking about it there may be issues with ethics here such they are such a vulnerable population. The deaf or hard of hearing are vulnerable because they are not able to communicate the same way as other individuals and they might have a harder time understanding what the physicians are trying to tell them. When I was reading the article "The Ethics of Patient Care" by W. Branch I found many different aspects that will help protect the patient from an harm. It is important to form a trusting patient- physician relationship so you know they have your best interest at heart and the patient is not treated like an object. These physicians need to have skilled

An ethical dilemma occurs when a person is forced to choose between two or more alternatives, none which is ideal (Finkelman & Kenner, 2014). In the film WIT, the major ethical dilemma presented in the film, were the treatment option that were offered to her by the physician. The physician manipulated the situation when he informs professor Barrings of her terminal cancer in its advance stages. Not given the time to process her diagnosis, the physician continues to talk about an experimental chemotherapy treatment as if it were her only option,