Dee Dee manipulated her daughter’s health including the doctors who were treating her. She made doctors believe that Gypsy needed a cure for her illness; as a result, it led excessive amounts of painful surgeries. "Gypsy underwent multiple surgeries during hospital visits. They include gastrointestinal operations, eye procedures, and removal of her salivary glands" (19:48) . A doctor depends on and believes what patients report to them because the patient is the one feeling their health decline. However, it was different in Gypsy’s case because the doctors had to trust Dee Dee since Gyspy did not have the power to voice her thoughts about her health. The doctors trusted Dee Dee because she is the mother of the patient. The doctors had a universal understanding of the mother’s role in their child’s life. As a result, they believed that Dee Dee only wanted to improve her daughter’s health and not destroy it. The article “The Other Side of Trust in Health Care: Prescribing Drugs with the Potential for Abuse” discusses the characteristic of a trusting relationship between the doctor and the patient and states, …show more content…
At the most fundamental level, in a good physician-patient relationship, the physician typically trusts the patient as a moral agent. Just as a trusting patient assumes good will on the part of the physician, so a physician entering into or engaging in a therapeutic relationship with a patient must also assume good will. This means, of course, not fearing physical harm, libelous reputational damage, or spiteful legal recourse, but more generally, it requires assuming that one is not being manipulated, used, or set up by a patient bent on securing some ill-gotten or undeserved
I often ask myself, “Can I handle it?” I learned from other doctors that in order to provide the best care, a physician must be able to detach himself or herself from the patient; they say it would be better for both the doctor and the patient. But, with that kind of thinking, the doctor is not fully giving himself to the patient. So, is it right to not fully give oneself to care for the patient? Learning from Patrick Dismuke and those who loved him, it seemed that the hospital was able to care for him best by loving him. Nurse Kay, Patrick’s favorite nurse, not only answered his late night calls, but enjoyed talking with him. This always calmed Patrick down before and/or after surgery. Dr. Aceves was always optimistic and hopeful for the future of Patrick’s health, never giving up on him by pushing for surgery. He did this because he knew Patrick all 16 years and was emotionally attached to the boy, even though Patrick did not feel the same way. Thus, though I can understand that a physician must put a wall between himself or herself and the patient, there should still be a strong connection in which they would do anything for the patient’s comfort and
In her personal essay, Dr. Grant writes that she learned that most cases involving her patients should not be only handled from a doctor’s point of view but also from personal experience that can help her relate to each patient regardless of their background; Dr. Grant was taught this lesson when she came face to face with a unique patient. Throughout her essay, Dr. Grant writes about how she came to contact with a patient she had nicknamed Mr. G. According to Dr. Grant, “Mr. G is the personification of the irate, belligerent patient that you always dread dealing with because he is usually implacable” (181). It is evident that Dr. Grant lets her position as a doctor greatly impact her judgement placed on her patients, this is supported as she nicknamed the current patient Mr.G . To deal with Mr. G, Dr. Grant resorts to using all the skills she
People trust doctors to save lives. Everyday millions of Americans swallow pills prescribed by doctors to alleviate painful symptoms of conditions they may have. Others entrust their lives to doctors, with full trust that the doctors have the patient’s best interests in mind. In cases such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the Crownsville Hospital of the Negro Insane, and Joseph Mengele’s Research, doctors did not take care of the patients but instead focused on their self-interest. Rebecca Skloot, in her contemporary nonfiction novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, uses logos to reveal corruption in the medical field in order to protect individuals in the future.
But one may wonder when DPB is necessary and what the benefits of such practice are. Cullen and Klein state that “this deception-to-benefit-the-patient view has a prima facie (at first glance) appeal,” although some may argue that this line of thinking has not yet been proven with positive results. One illustration to this theory is when a doctor tells a kidney transplant recipient that he is doing good and that the prognosis looks promising with the justification that the patient, although the kidney is not functioning at all, but after hearing the positive feedback from the physician, it may lift his spirit and regain full health. The physicians with this type of ideology presume that “a sick person isn’t made better by gloomy assessments.” This type of DBP is intended to be used in order to benefit the patient, however, there are no proven cases to confirm that this method works, and it’s merely intended as an effort for the physicians to make the patient feel better, furthermore, as stated by Cullen and Klein “In all but rarest cases, deceiving a patient ‘for his own good’ is an unacceptable way for a physician to try to help her patient.” (Cullen & Klein
When we see patients, we must remember that we are not simply treating a disease. We are caring for people with lives, hobbies, jobs, families, and friends, who are likely in a very vulnerable position. We must ensure that we use the status of physicians to benefit patients first and foremost, and do what we promised to when we entered the profession: provide care and improve quality of life, and hopefully leave the world a little better than it was
In association to this, those medical physicians granted the responsibility to act upon these potential laws will have to regain the trust between themselves and the patient and also the patient’s family.
Jamison describes another medical figure in her life that she referred to as Dr. M. Dr. M was Jamison’s primary cardiologist, a figure who is involved in some of the most intimate details of Jamison’s life. However, Jamison describes Dr. M by saying she, “…wasn’t personal at all” (14). Dr. M would actually record personal information about Jamison on a tape recorder, however, Jamison would hear Dr. M referring to her as “patient” instead of by her name. This example demonstrates that Dr. M was indeed putting in the minimal effort needed to keep her clients, however, no additional effort was put into the process of learning about her patients. Jamison says that, “…the methods of her mechanics [were] palpable between us…” (18). Dr. M would not even put any effort into disguising her lack of interest of getting to know Jamison. This atmosphere of apathy that is exuded by Dr. M naturally causes Jamison to retract from Dr. M, which creates an environment that is not good for cultivating
Valarie Blake, J. M. (2012, May ). When Is a Patient-Physician Relationship Established? The Virtual Mentor Volume 14, Number 5:, 403-406. Retrieved from The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics.
Prior to the hospital, Deborah only considered the gods and goddesses existing in Yr, to be her friends, as she would turn to them during times of loneliness or rejection. Throughout the time spent in the hospital, Deborah slowly opened up to Dr. Fried, even nicknaming her ‘Furii’, based upon the power her insight held. During her treatment sessions with Dr. Fried, Deborah familiarizes a feeling which she has become immune too over the years, a feeling of love. Due to the empathy displayed by famous psychiatrist Dr. Fried, the feeling of being the sick, crazy girl ultimately distinguishes during their sessions, resulting in a positive impact along Deborah’s road to recovery, "She liked working with patients. Their very illness made them examine their sanity as few 'sane ' people could. Kept from loving, sharing, and simple communication, they often hungered for it with a purity of passion that she saw as beautiful." (Greenberg, 19). When Dr. Royson supply’s for Dr. Fried, it becomes evident that the trust Dr. Fried built within her relationship with Deborah, and her genuine desire to help the protagonist, assisted the uphill battle, as without the compassion and belief Dr. Royson failed to provide, Deborah fell back down the hill. In conclusion, the honest efforts of the
One crucial point that Lipkin fails to recognize is that medicine is patient-centered. Even though medicine has changed via technological advances, healthcare coverage, and ethics, one thing has remained constant – medicine provides care for the patient. More than that, medicine (especially primary care) emphasizes treating the patient as a person, not a diagnosis. In the story Being Mickey’s Doctor, the pediatrician who treats ten-year-old Mickey learns valuable lessons about being humanistic and compassionate. Mickey was a talkative child who would let Dr. Morhimann (the pediatrician) know the good and bad things about her treatment. She would complain when the doctors had conversations right outside her door, and didn’t like when Dr. Morhimann talked to Mickey’s siblings about the disease in a way that made it seem like the disease had replaced Mickey. The main point...
Ethics in the medical field are very important and should be taken seriously. As a medical professional you will tested daily on making the best choices, using good judgment and being morally responsible for your actions. There are nine principles in the Code of Medical Ethics that in general make up the primary code. As a medical professional you must always consider what is in the best interest of the patient. Code of medical ethics of the American Medical Association, (2012). When determining the proper “Patient-Physician Relationship, the relationship between the patient and physician is based on trust and gives rise to the physicians’ ethical obligations to place a patients’ welfare above their own self-interest” Code of medical ethics of the American Medical Association, (2012).
In “Should Doctors Tell the Truth?” Joseph Collins argues for paternalistic deception, declaring that it is permissible for physicians to deceive their patients when it is in their best interests. Collins considers his argument from a “pragmatic” standpoint, rather than a moral one, and uses his experience with the sick to justify paternalistic deception. Collins argues that in his years of practicing, he has encountered four types of patients who want to know the truth: those that want to know so they know how much time they have left, those who do not want to know and may suffer if told the truth, those who are incapable of hearing the truth, and those who do not have a serious diagnosis (605). Collins follows with the assertion that the more serious the condition is, the less likely the patient is to seek information about their health (606).
To conclude, bona fide practices by physicians may be both good and bad. However, it still remains that the gift of life is the most valuable thing on earth and physicians should hence consider this first before some other things like money. They are not only the patients alone who benefit anyway, but even the physicians themselves and what they make in future may result from such generous acts that attracted other people. Caution must however be taken as it is not an absolutely good practice having its own hiccups as seen above.
However, the lack of set accountabilities results in the inability to differentiate when nurses are overstepping and when its necessary to disclose themselves from patient treatment. Medical professionals begin overstepping without established professional boundaries, which results in “negligence of patients needs at expense of their own” (Tyrell, 2016). Because of the long-term treatments and bonds formed throughout the healing process, many patients and nurses confuse this with friendship. As Tyrell and Pryor mention (2016), friendly nurse-patient relationships may be healthy and influencing during rehabilitation, but nurses must remind themselves of the goal at hand which involves helping the patient regain function as soon as possible and allow them to return to their old or altered
The writer asserts that, although the doctor upholds the dignity of oaths by preventing or terminating any harm towards the patient, equally important is assessing the possible benefits and drawbacks of any treatment. Therefore, it is vital to discuss the principle of beneficence under two subheadings, positive beneficence and the utilitarian principle (Beauchamp, 1989, p.195).