MATH_533_Week_1 Statistics in Action Case "Factors That Influence a Doctor to Refuse Ethics Consultation"

Statistics in Action Case "Factors That Influence a Doctor to Refuse Ethics Consultation" Before getting into analyzing the data, let’s consider the question of the pros and cons of doctors using ethics consultations with doctors, and other ethicists, trained to think and provide advice on ethical issues in healthcare. Take a look on the Internet, or in the Keller Graduate School online library, to find an article or articles on this issue. What is your view? Do you have any personal experiences you are comfortable sharing about medical ethical issues you and your family and/or friends have confronted? Ethics in the medical field should be held to the highest of standards but unfortunately they are not. Far too many times, doctors believe they know what is best for your well-being but aren't they "practicing" medicine? Should there be an ethical review on a general or follow-up appointment, No. However, I do believe that there should be ethical consultations on just about every specialty care that is available. Case in point - My wife has a very rare and serious illness known as Adult Onset Stills Disease. We call it Rheumatoid Arthritis' evil cousin. As Rheumatoid Arthritis attacks your joints, Stills Disease does that and attacks all soft tissue in your body. Your demise with Stills Disease is either from the enormous amounts of medication you are on, a stroke or a heart attack. I am an Air Force veteran and for the most part my wife sees military doctors. They have an entire different set of ethics from a civilian doctor. As a matter of fact most doctors we have to educate them on what Stills Disease is?! If my wife and I have to do a doctor's job then maybe they should choose another profession. Early in her treatment they turned my wife into a medical guinea pig. Without any explicit knowledge of the disease they would blindly treat her and usually end up making her symptoms and issues worse. I believe that a team of specialists should be available at any given to to collaboratively address the issues. If you review the medical journal I have attached, you will see there is not a lot of information on the devastation this disease unleashes. Please take a quick read and tell me your thoughts. Adult-Onset Still's Disease: From Pathophysiology to Targeted Therapies Mavragani, C., Spyridakis, E., & Koutsilieris, M. (2012, April 12). Adult-Onset Still’s Disease: From Pathophysiology to Targeted Therapies. Retrieved from Response 2 Currently there is a hot button debate being waged over how to handle medical personnel returning from treating Ebola patients overseas. The New York Daily News ran an article last week ("Ebola in NY: Medical Community Split on whether Dr. Craig Spencer should have self-quarantined") that highlights the inherent difficulties facing medical ethical consensus. On one hand, Ebola can only be spread through the transfer of bodily fluids, so the likelihood of an outbreak because Dr. Spencer went This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :02:47 GMT -06:00 bowling and took an Uber ride is very low. However, the fact that the disease has been spreading to medical personnel treating Ebola patients is disturbing. Most of the personnel infected in America were required to observe extraordinary anticontamination measures, but they were still infected. Dr. Spencer was treating patients in West Africa, where sanitary conditions are not as secure, and many people in the medical community (and the general public) feel that he should have quarantined himself at home until the 21-day incubation period lasts. The split in the medical community highlights the lack of clear ethical direction. Response 3 First off: Jason, I am so sorry that your wife is going through this disease. I can only imagine how awful it must feel to go to a doctor, thinking he/she will have answers, only to discover that medical advances just haven't gotten there yet. Nobody wants to go through a treatment with the slightest notion of "I hope this works"...they want to know that it will. I read the article you posted, and considered another aspect to the lack of acceptance for ethics consultations. Two words came to mind - pride and ego. We, as patients, visit the doctor asking them to fix us - something is wrong, and we need them to help. Is there too much of a sense of pride within the doctors, that they feel they shouldn't ask for help? If anyone watches medical dramas on tv (Grey's Anatomy), imagine the Dr. Shephard's of the world, w