Doctrine of Informed Consent
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A 5 page paper which examines the Doctrine of Conformed Consent. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAincnn.rtf

Drug Abuse Among Anesthesiologists and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
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A 16 page overview of substance abuse among medical professionals that work in anesthesiology departments. The author provides statistics that illuminate the problem and then suggests measures which should alleviate the problem. Included a one-page letter to a Senator urging him to implement mandatory drug testing for this profession. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPmedAbu.rtf

Dying/A Medical and Social Perspective
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A 4 page research paper that examines the topic of death and dying from a medical standpoint, but also argues that is more than a medical event and should be approached with sociological, cultural and ethical considerations in mind. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: khmeddie.rtf

E-Health: Policies And Procedures To Protect Consumer Confidentiality
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4 pages in length. The promise of patient empowerment, lowered costs and improved public health services heralds the notion of e-health as an option whose time has certainly arrived. The extent to which the extensive components of e-health serve to upgrade a health system in dire need of improvement is both grand and far-reaching; that e-health also poses a significant problem with regard to consumer confidentiality speaks to the grey area where it is definitively understood who is authorized to access consumer health-related information. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCE-health.rtf

Embryonic Stem Cells
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A 5 page research paper/essay that, first of all, examines what is being done in embryonic stem cell research, its potentials for therapeutic treatments. Then, the writer argues against the proposed ban against human stem cell research. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khstemcl.wps

Equality in Health Care is Essential
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This 9 page paper examines the fact that all people, regardless of socio-economic status have an equal right to quality health care. Bibliography lists seven sources.
Filename: Eqhea.wps

Error In Judgment: Clinician Bias
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4 pages in length. The aura of professionalism includes a number of characteristics that one can reasonably expect to exist without question; those who adopt the power and influence inherent to psychiatry are particularly responsible for eschewing the temptation toward bias when it comes to making errors in judgment while interviewing an individual who has just been brought into a psychiatric crisis intervention center. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCClinBias.rtf

Essays / Medicine, Medical Science, & Medical Ethics
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29 pages worth of in-depth essay responses to questions concerning medical ethics, AIDS, euthanasia, the Hippocratic Oath, and more. An EXCELLENT resource for pre-med and early med students. No Bibliography.
Filename: Medques.wps

Ethic Principles Of Persistent Vegetative State
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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses the ethical nature of allowing someone to languish in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLC_PVS.rtf

Ethical and Moral Issues in Alternative Reproductive Biotechnologies
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This 7 page report discusses alternative reproductive biotechnologies such as in vitro fertilization, cloning, and surrogate motherhood. The writer presents the concept of utilitarianism as best-serving as an ethical and moral framework by which such biotechnologies may be considered and validated. The moral and ethical considerations of corporations are also considered within such a context. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWaltrepr.rtf

Ethical Approach to Practicing on the Newly Dead
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A 3 page paper written from the perspective of weighing options in practicing on the newly dead (intubation, subclavian line insertion, other procedures). The ethics committee will be meeting to determine policy after several instances of premature activity; the purpose here is to suggest an ethical policy. The paper uses the philosophies of Kant and Mill to conclude that the policy should take the form of allowing practice on the newly dead, but only after receiving permission from the nurse assigned to the case at the time of death. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSnursEthNewlyDead.rtf

Ethical Complications in Organ Donations
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An 11 page paper which examines why some people may not wish to be organ donors because of ethical reasons. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RAorgn.rtf