Should Adolescents Be A Medical Decisions?

If you had a child or children that wanted to make their own medical decisions when they turn 14-15 years old would you let them make those decisions so early in life? Well there are some parents that do let their own 14-15 years old children make their own medical decisions, For example, when your 15 year old daughter has leukemia and you wants to start treatment right away but your daughter wants to wait till after the friday concert to start treatment. If you were this girl 's mother what would your response be? Well you probably have the same answer as me. So I honestly think that adolescents should have the right to make autonomous medical decisions.
First, health care professional have a fundamental duty to do what 's best for their patients. Healthcare professionals are supposed to have great emphasis to provide the respect to their patients autonomy in adult healthcare. No matter the choice the patient makes to do with his or her care. As a child you need time to transition between dependence and vulnerability of childhood and autonomy of being an adult. The capacity and ability to make their own free will choices. Legally, adolescents to consent and confidentiality depends on how they professionally exercise it. Evidence proves that adolescents the age of 14-15 year olds have similar capacities as an adult. Adolescents may not always act the way you want them to act, the analytic processesses may not be best for decision making. Also adolescents may show emotions to decisions making because of external influences like perceptions and peer group pressure. Cognitive assessment of capacity may not take sufficient accounts of emotional and psychological components of making decisions on their own. The PFC (Prefrontal Cortex...

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...e most likely to end up pregnant and then when the teens didn’t want the baby they got an abortion. The medical decision of getting an abortion is a major decision that teens make when they are pregnant. Most states passed laws for minors consent to confidential reproductive health services and mental health services.
Finally, I think that adolescents should have the responsibility to make their own autonomous medical decisions, but also take time to think about decision they are making first. Adolescents are people too and if you look at a 16 year old as a mature adult then you should look at 14-15 year old as adults as well. Everyone is equal everyone should be treated equal. Also it is legal for adolescents to have their rights, if we as citizens in the United States of America didn’t have the right to privacy I don’t think that we would have our Bill of Rights.