Where do you stand on physician assisted death and why? Do you think physician assisted death decisions should be made by the federal government to cover the entire United States, or should each state be able to make their own decisions and laws? Or should the family have the sole right to make decisions like this?
Where do you stand on physician assisted death and why? Do you think physician assisted death decisions should be made b...
Do you think that western society, American society perhaps fears death so much that policy and legal issues have been improperly impacted? Should a person be able to manage his/her own health care decisions? For examp[e, should be assisted suicide to be a fundamental right of each person in this country? Why or why not?
What is physician-assisted suicide? How is it different from self-induced suicide? Do you think that all people should have the right to die, or in other words, should the death with dignity act be a federally-protected law? Explain your answer based on content from the HBO Vice documentary, Right to Die.
For discussion post. Please make it sound professional! What do you think about Physician Assisted Suicide? Why do you think some states have legalized it? What are your own views, pro and con? Can you see it as a last resort? Would you fear not having any control of the end of your life? Would you want the option of PAS if you were not going to get better and in pain?
With the passage of its "death with dignity" bill this past election cycle, Colorado became the sixth state in the United States to allow physicians to legally prescribe a lethal drug to a terminally ill patient who requests it and self-administers it. Among physicians, acceptance of the idea of physician-assisted death is increasing steadily. Fifty-seven percent of physicians now say they believe physician-assisted death should be available to terminally ill patients, up from 54% in 2014 and 46% in 2010,...
In the absence of federal labor laws, what do you think the scope and nature of labor relations would be in the United States? Are current labor laws capable of dealing with labor- management problems, or should they be abolished?
What is democracy? Who do you think should participate and why or why not? Do you think the United States is a democracy now or has it ever been a democracy?
Do you think a hospital should accept responsibility and liability because a physician was employed by them, and is now be sued for malpractice , because he wrote order for a lethal dose of fentanyl that has cause the death of a patent. instead 100mcg , they 1000mcg , who is wrong.
What should you do in situations where people are unable to make their own decisions?
According the US Department of Labor, in 2014, women made 79% of what men made who work in the same positions. Several variables account for this wage gap. Based upon what you learned about wage gaps this week, what impact do you think outlawing pay secrecy would have on the gender wage gap in the United States? Do you think the private sector should make salaries public records like government employee salaries? Why or why not?
How do you think a physician should deal with parents that want hGH for their kids? Being tall is generally considered an advantage in life, so why not give it to kids even if it is not medically necessary? What if we gave it to all kids, like a vaccine against shortness? Or should we shelf the medicine and work on being more tolerant of short people?