If a loved one was terminally ill, the family members could be tempted to put out of misery because the pain they saw from the ill family member was unbearable. ... Palliative care and hospices are couple of treatments available that can help bring comfort to the ill. ... Human errors, such as a doctor's diagnosis could be could be misinterpreted, meaning the patient might not even be terminally ill (Euthanasia 1). ... Not only does it allow doctors to become killers, but also discourages the search for new cures and treatments for the terminally ill. ... When a doctor decides there is no...

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I've learned to be a little bit more patient with her and other people. ... When my mother was ill years ago, I felt like life was not worth anything and I felt like I was not worth anything. ... I want to experience different patients with different situations. ... I learned that you have to be patient with people and give them some time. ... My mother and my sister's situations have guided me in a way to become better at being patient with people and to have more sympathy for those who are ill and can barely get up out of their beds because that could be anybody, a loved one, a clo...

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The focus of the movie was on a variety of mentally ill patients under the care of a very controlling and detested Nurse Ratched along with her overly aggressive assistants. ... She tells all of her patients what to do and when to do it as though they are merely children. ... Remarkable looks of achievement were on all of the patient's faces just over something insignificant like catching a fish. ... I learned that the treatment of the mentally ill in state hospitals during the 1960s was not entirely professional and had more negative effects than positive. The guards in the instituti...

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He relief's the suffering of his ill patient's by helping them die. ... Other reasons why I disagree of euthanasia are; mistakes can happen, a dying patient may not be able to think properly when deciding if the patient wants to die quickly, if the patient is unable to choose when to die, then who decides? Also it could make the ill and old feel they need to get out the way. ...

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Although the official position of the medical profession is to maintain life indefinitetely, regardless of the condition of the patient, but in certain cases, euthanasia should be legal to administer. ... Ill patients throughtout the world are kept alive by the use of defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other similar equipment. ... Most cases where enthanasia could be applied involve patients that want to die. Its rather common for patients that have become medically dependant on machines to want to die, but rather the wishes of the family or care-takers of the pat...

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The patient cannot help but lay there, helplessly, until total body failure. ... Which option sounds more just, the option of a person's life being taken form them based on the decision of someone else, or the option of a terminally ill person choosing to die based on one's own decision. ... Terminal disease is managed so patients can live comfortably until they die. ... No one person can fully meet the needs of the dying patient, instead, a multidisciplinary team must be available to deal with any needs the patient or family may have. The patient should be treated as a person, n...

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When people are sick, especially when they are terminally ill, they may at times want to die. ... Therefore, the patients might not be choosing to die under clear thinking. ... The pressure on those patients becomes lighter when they know they won't have to go on suffering. ... Although euthanasia takes away the suffering from the patient, it does take away a person's life. ... The patients can be sure that the doctor will not let them suffer unnecessarily alone. ...

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She was extremely ill, weighing in at just over 80 pounds. ... I was amazed by how he was able to balance being on television and helping his patients in Georgia as a neurosurgeon. ... I began shadowing my dad during his in-home patient visits and hospital visits when I was 12 years old. ... Every once in a while, I would travel to his clinic in Blountstown and observe him examining patients and prescribing medication. I enjoyed watching him assist his patients and would often stare at diagrams of the human body in his office, awed by its intricacy. ...

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The goal of the hospital is to the patient=s welfare and to help the patient to become well again. ... Although the patient=s medical needs are met, the primary concern is for the patient=s social and spiritual wellBbeing. ... There are times when a patient is suffering such extreme pain that either the patient or the patient=s family just wants the pain to end. ... The first one is passive euthanasia and is Athe practice of withholding (not initiating) or withdrawing (removing) lifeBprolonging but ultimately futile treatment, thereby allowing a terminally ill person to die naturally@ (I...

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It will re-assure the patient that you truly care. ... The core of nursing is being an advocate for the patient. ... Nursing advocacy requires that a nurse has the ability to speak up for the patient when they are too ill or weak to do so. ... I believe that the patient's family and significant others should be involved in all aspect of the patient care if they choose to do so. ... Therefore, it's important to me to treat my patients how I would want to be treated because that day will come when I will be the patient. ...

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These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. ... These mentally ill people often don't receive treatment because the police are often picking up the mentally ill and they are not trained to diagnose mental problems so the problems go unnoticed. ... There is a huge number of mentally ill that are homeless because they've gone untreated. ... There are confused mentally ill people that have been forgotten about by society that are roaming the streets. ...

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Often chronically ill people are perceived as lazy even by their own family members. ... Examples of other adjectives used to describe chronically ill individuals 1. ... Chronically ill people should not have to trade their right to privacy for acceptance in any society a. ... In the life of a dialysis patient it is a juggling act of chemistries, fluid intake, energy, life duties and time. ... Chronically ill people should not have to trade their right to privacy for acceptance in any society. ...

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This drug is used for terminally ill patients to help relieve pain and is not intended to cure the illness. ... Marijuana is legal in some states and can be used by patients with cancer, glaucoma, and others with terminal illness. ...

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Research Paper Everyday in this world, children become ill or get into accidents and need medical attention. ... They assist in procedures, testing, and diagnosing the patient. ... Becoming impatient with a child when they are ill and hurting would scare the child and they would lose their ability to trust their nurses. ... "Consider the critically ill child who is surrounded by beeping monitors and alarming machines" (Vestal 606). ...

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