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Healthcare and Nursing - Social Justice in Healthcare Distribution
Practicing adequate social justice while distribution of healthcare funds
amongst the most deserving and needy cases, is an arduous task. While
distributing these funds, it is essential to take a paradigm view of the
situation, and then making decisions without any social or racial bias. In the
given scenario, looking at all the given cases and making a decision
regarding which patient deserves to be saved; was an eye-opening
experience for me indeed.
In my opinion, patient C deserves to receive the funds. My rationale behind
this decision is pretty logical and simple. In case of patient A, the fact that
the patient is quite old and has already lived 70 years of his life, makes it
hard for me to choose him. The patient has already exceeded the average
global lifespan (Brockmann, 2002), and investing one million dollars in
saving his life would leave me regretful for the younger patients in need of
funds. In case of patient B, the life expectancy of the toddler is only until
teenage; which means that the funds would not be well-invested here. Now,
in case of patient D, the patient is going to be completely dependent on the
hepatitis drug given to him. This means that patient D would be able to live
normally only until three years, until the funds will last. The expenditure of
the hepatitis drug as described in the case is 30,000 dollars per month.
Hence, there is going to be no backup or guarantee for the hospital to ensure
that it has saved a life successfully in the longer run or not. Now, lastly, in
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Healthcare and Nursing - Social Justice in Healthcare Distribution
Practicing adequate social justice while distribution of healthcare funds
amongst the most deserving and needy cases, is an arduous task. While
distributing these funds, it is essential to take a paradigm view of the
situation, and then making decisions without any social or racial bias. In the
given scenario, looking at all the given cases and making a decision
regarding which patient deserves to be saved; was an eye-opening
experience for me indeed.
In my opinion, patient C deserves to receive the funds. My rationale behind
this decision is pretty logical and simple. In case of patient A, the fact that
the patient is quite old and has already lived 70 years of his life, makes it
hard for me to choose him. The patient has already exceeded the average
global lifespan (Brockmann, 2002), and investing one million dollars in
saving his life would leave me regretful for the younger patients in need of
funds. In case of patient B, the life expectancy of the toddler is only until
teenage; which means that the funds would not be well-invested here. Now,
in case of patient D, the patient is going to be completely dependent on the
hepatitis drug given to him. This means that patient D would be able to live
normally only until three years, until the funds will last. The expenditure of
the hepatitis drug as described in the case is 30,000 dollars per month.
Hence, there is going to be no backup or guarantee for the hospital to ensure
that it has saved a life successfully in the longer run or not. Now, lastly, in
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