Who Gets The Heart? Who deserves the gift of life? These are five patients who are worthy of having this heart transplant. This has been one of the toughest decisions in my career as a doctor‚ but I have made a choice. I’ve decided that Helen is the best candidate for this surgery. I feel this way partly because‚ her kids are at a stage in their life where they need their mothers care and the others aren’t good choices for a few reasons. But this is not the main reason for my choice. Above all
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In given article‚ there was a story about an inmate who had problems with his heart. The inmate was sent to Stanford University Medical Center where he was getting treatments. All the costs ended up being $2 million. After‚ an inmate got his transplant‚ he became the center of a national controversy. At that time‚ there were 500 other Californians who were waiting for similar operation. The issue that is raised in the article is: should there be limits on the kinds and cost of medical care to which
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A person’s body needs it’s kidneys to filter blood‚ create hormones to make bones strong and blood healthy. When kidneys fail‚ treatment is necessary‚ and there are only two options: a kidney transplant or dialysis. Dialysis first became a practical treatment in the 1960’s. There are two main types of dialysis‚ hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Both types of dialysis filter blood of harmful wastes‚ extra salt‚ and water. Hemodialysis does this with a machine. Both require a special diet and both
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Ethics Paper Week 5 ETHC 445 Today a decision needs to be made. We have three patients who are in dire need of a heart transplant and there is only one heart available. Decisions like this are never easy to make and there is no right answer‚ because no matter the choice there will be two people left with little hope to live. However it is my duty and my responsibility to make that choice in a timely manner so that someone may benefit from the heart that is available
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1. Look up the definition of eugenics. Eugenics is the desire to improve the human gene pool by discouraging‚ or in some cases forcefully controlling‚ the reproduction of the unfit (Wellerstein pg. 29). The people branded to be "unfit"‚ were seen as recipients of undesirable heritable characteristics. The act of forcefully restricting people of reproduction is a form of negative eugenics. 2. What are the historical facts about sterilization in California? (time period‚ numbers‚ comparison with
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leadership‚ Sir Magdy Yacoub & his research team involved in the development of the techniques of heart and heart-lung transplantation program in 1980 and by the end of the decade they had performed 1000 operations‚ becoming the world’s leading transplant surgeon‚ pioneering the modern arterial switch operations.‚ in March (2014)‚ sir. Magdy Yacoub has declared that he has been able to produce a whole human heart through the Nano
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Early History of the Pipe Organ The "king of instruments" has a long history‚ one which can arguably be traced to the concept of a collection of "fixed-pitched pipes blown by a single player (such as the panpipes)" (Randel 583). The first examples of pipe organs with the basic features of today can be traced to the third century B.C.E. in the Greco-Roman arena; it is said to have been invented by Ktesibios of Alexander and contained "a mechanism to supply air under pressure‚ a wind-chest to store
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1. a) Potential market for Humans To accurately calculate the number of units that would be required per year in the human market‚ we first estimated the total number of patients that would require RBC transfusions divided in three main groups: Elective and emergency surgeries: The current market is of 7.9 million units‚ but there is also an unserved market of borderline transfusions that would require an additional 1.5 million units (1 million surgeries with requirements of 1-2 units / surgery)
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A North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea is distinguished by its Berber‚ Arabian and European cultural influences. Morocco is the fifth-largest Arab country by population 33.8 million. You do not have to make a doctor’s appointment by time. You tell them either in the morning of the afternoon and you show up either in the morning or the afternoon and is a first come basis. You cannot buy ibuprofen over the counter you have to go to a pharmacist. When you are in
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In the novel‚ “What Money Can’t Buy” Michael J. Sandel uses numerous real world analogies to display how incentives and the lack of monetary limits are defacing personal relations‚ separating society based on wealth‚ and creating corruption through the commodification of everyday life. The interaction between humans is a crucial part to a healthy and functioning society. Sandel expresses that putting a monetary value on things such as a Papal Mass in New York or a free Shakespeare play in the park
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