morality and ethics: could one patients’ right, overrule the other
Morality and ethics seems to be a broad topic, misunderstood by many, however is it really that difficult to understand, or do […]
Category: Term 1 (2019)
Patient’s information confidentiality versus Physical therapist clinical judgement.
The principle of confidentiality obliges us health professionals to respect the confidential information that patients share with us. By extension, we are […]
Meaningfulness in Life and Death- Timothy Fester 3635261
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”- […]
Limited right to health care for the poor.
My first block for this year was an NMS (neuromusculoskeletal) treatment block. I was placed on campus at the Physiotherapy Clinic. The […]
How we define life.
Meaning of life: Life has been defined in many different ways, and it always comes down to what that particular person’s belief […]
How does a student cope with a death of a patient in a clinical setting?
http://diysolarpanelsv.com/dead-people-clipart.html According to Meier et al., (2016), it is difficult to define the concept of a good death, as there is no […]
The quiet, but loud cry for help by a professional female athlete to a conflicted student physiotherapist
Student physiotherapists are taught and reminded timeously during lectures of the importance of incorporating ethical reasoning and professionalism within the scope of […]
I do not care.
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy”- Meryl Streep According to the oxford dictionary empathy […]
A choice to die
For some time my grandmother suffered from type 2 diabetes for a number of years. She was in and out of hospital […]
The impoliteness of nursing staff in the hospital environment
Every morning the doctor does rounds and during these rounds he opens and inspects wounds and leaves them open then goes on […]