Quick discharges from hospitals
While South Africa’s public health care system has come a long way since the end of Apartheid, there are still major issues […]
Category: Term 1 (2019)
How to allocate a limited amount of resources
During my second clinical block of 2018, I was placed on my community block in Mitchell’s Plain in the Western Cape. I […]
Should patients be restrained (3611286)
In many hospitals around the world and in south Africa patients are restrained by health care workers in order to prevent self-harm […]
Euthanasia – whose decision?
Euthanasia is a decision to purposefully terminate a person’s life for the sake of that person (Rowe, 2019). It can be subdivided […]
Autonomy and informed consent: An ethical dilemma
Refusal of treatment in a clinical setting Ethical reasoning is defined as the ability to identify, assess, and develop ethical arguments from […]
“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians”
“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians” – Alexander the Great To many people these are just empty words […]
How death impacts health professional students in clinical settings
Death is defined as the cessation of all vital function: end of life (Merriam Webster dictionary, 2018). As a health professional, we […]
Language barriers and the struggle to preserving private information
A person’s language is in many ways a “second skin”: a natural possession of every normal human being, with which we use […]
Multiple Ethical Dilemmas
During the last two years of clinical practice, I have worked with various healthcare practitioners. During this time I experienced how different […]
stigma around abortion
patient is a 14-year-old female from Khayelitsha presenting with a premature born baby. Patient stays in a shark with her mother and […]