Veterinary Clinic Ethical Dilemmas

Edwards’ Veterinarian Clinic is devoted to saving animals lives and making clients happy. Edwards’ Veterinarian Clinic has the highest expectations for our employees which in turn creates a good environment for not only our employees but also our clients. This veterinarian clinic makes sure that every client is pleased with us and our work.

All Creatures Care Cottage Veterinary Hospital is an animal hospital located in Costa Mesa, California. It has been servicing families for more than 30 years. They offer a wide range of services including spays and neuters, surgery, boarding, dental health, medicated baths, prescriptions and preventative care, vaccines, diagnostics, and more. Assistance with medical emergencies is available at All Creatures Care Cottage Veterinary Hospital.

I job shadowed at Midway Veterinary Clinic, which they focus on small animals. When I got there the first thing that I had learned about was what they do on a routine; first they take the weight of dog/cat, even in the case of an emergency they always weigh the animal first. Next they check the heart rate and temperature.

Newport Animal Hospital is a veterinary hospital located in Newport Coast, California. It was founded by Dr. John A. Giannone. In 1978, John A. Giannone, DVM has earned his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from University of Parma’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in Parma, Italy. Their other veterinarian is Dr. Christina Heathcock, DVM who is an animal acupuncturist. Their services include health maintenance services, diagnostic services, surgery, dental, avian, exotics and pocket pets, and alternative services. Newport Animal Hospital makes their clinic a safe, clean, and comfortable

Alex was experiencing things I cant even imagine; everyday is a chance for him to get

In 2003, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a campaign called ‘Holocaust on Your Plate’. This display compared pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse against pictures of Nazi concentration camp. This campaign stemmed from Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote: ‘In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for them it is an eternal Treblinka’ — a death camp in Poland” (CNN, 2003). It’s meant to emotionally target the viewer, similar to a scare tactic. It was also deeply insulting to many holocaust survivors. I believe this was a poor decision on PETA’s part, and the bad definitely outweighed the good for everyone.

How deep do you really think about ethical concerns when you hear about them? Well, he veterinarian medical profession has thousands of ethical concerns in today’s world and like every profession there are some that stand out and some that affect more people than you would actually think. Digging deep to reveal the ethical concerns to people conveniently euthanasing animals and putting growth hormones in cows just to produce enough food for today’s society can be a real awakening.

It is no secret that millions of animals a year are used for medical experimentation. One study “found the number of animals tested rose from 1,566,994 in 1997 to 2,705,772 in 2012” (Casey). It is my belief that researchers use virtue theory to defend their experimentations. While animal activists approach experimentation through the ethics of care. I am against animal experimentation, but I will also provide insight into why people believe it is ethically just.

The subject of animal testing when it comes to religion is exceedingly debated. As long as there is no unnecessary pain inflicted onto the animals and there is a real possibility of benefit to human beings, then Jewish, Christian, and Muslim teaching allows for animal experimentation. On the other hand, many people believe that since religious traditions, such as Hindu or Buddashism, tell us to be merciful to animals, we should not cause them suffering by experimenting on them.

When it comes to clinical research, many people think of clinical trials, but that’s only merely a small portion of a process towards a medical development involving a process call bench to the bedside. Clinical research outline scientific investigation involving animal or human subjects helping translate basic research into new treatments that would be valuable to patients. Clinical trials can contain a variety of research under the departments of physiology and pathophysiology, health services, and mental health. Furthermore, the process of developing new treatments from the bench to the bedside come in three stages: basic research, transitional research, and clinical research.

For thousands of years animals have been used as research subjects, but with the advancement of science and society, animal experimentation has morphed into a controversial bioethics topic. Animal experimentation is the use of animals in scientific research. This experimentation ranges from testing pharmaceuticals on rats to measuring the elasticity of tendons in rabbits to implanting mechanical devices in calves. And while the FDA has dozens of guidelines to keep animal testing as ethical as possible, a strong opposition to animal research (particularly mammalian research) still exists.

homeopathic treatments used on the farm animals are providing healthier food sources. The farmers and food companies are advertising and implying the aspect of “healthier living,” when in fact these animals may be causing more harm than good.

The study of good and bad, right and wrong, moral principles or value held by a person or society, promoting human welfare, maximizing freedom minimizing pain and suffering is called ethics. The discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents is called environmental ethics. It considers the ethical relationship between the humans and the environment. Animal and animal rights are the highlighted topic in the environmental ethics.

According to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service performed by the United States Department of Agriculture, there are an estimated 26 million animals that are used for commercial and scientific testing annually in the United States (Annual). How do research facilities and laboratories obtain test subjects? They are mostly supplied by specialist dealers whom breed animals for the sole purpose of selling them as test subjects. Dealers also obtain animals through pounds, shelters, misleading advertisements, and through other means (Miller-Spiegel). Animal testing and research should cease because animals are subjected to cruel inhumane procedures by researchers, viable alternatives exist for animals testing, and results obtained through animal testing are mostly flawed and unreliable.

The first perspective will argue whether or not animal medicine research is allowed in the contemporary from ethicists and philosophers that are arguing if animal medicine research is allowed in the contemporary society. Ethic and philosophy take an important part in the animal medical researches. In the ancient society, some ethicists claim that non-human animals are lower than humans and people have the rights to domesticated and control animals. “Animal are automata, and ranked below human beings.” Descartes, a French philosopher, thought. In fact, it not a special attitude existed in the medieval, many philosophers have the same opinion with Descartes. Such as Immanuel Knut, Aristotle and Tomas Aquinas. They deemed that animal should be