Medical practitioners

medical practitioners

Medical practitioners: Discussion Questions
Upon completion of the Required Readings, write a thorough, well-planned narrative
answer to each of the following discussion questions. Rely on your Required Readings and the
Lecture and Research Update for specific information to answer each discussion question, but
turn to your original thoughts when asked to apply, evaluate, analyze, or synthesize the
information. Your Discussion Question responses should be both grammatically and
mechanically correct and formatted in the same fashion as the questions themselves. If there is a
Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition, you must appropriately cite all
resources used in your responses and document them in a bibliography using APA style.
Explain the financial, social worth, and medical factors that influence how organ
transplants are awarded. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.)
Contrast the American and British ways of rationing health care. (25 points)
(A 1½-page response is required.)
What are the benefits and weaknesses of each?
In which system is it ethically easier for a physician to say “no” to a request for
expensive treatment? Why?
Which system do you think is the most ethical and why?

 

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There are many financial, social and medical factors that influence how organ transplants are awarded.  Although medical practitioners have limited resources, they dispense them using scarcity and economics. Doctors usually consider a number of factors when offering a transplant. Firstly, surgeons usually determine whether a patient fits to be a candidate for any organ transplant………………………

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