Term 3 (2019) – Page 2 – Professional ethics

Ethics and professionalism in sport

This topic is closely linked with ethics in sport. Over the past year I have had 2 separate clinical experiences while at […]

I was on my 3rd block this year in Mitchell’s Plain Intermediate Care Facility/ Aquarius Health Care, it was a specific neurology […]

In my general block, my 17 year old patient came for her ortho appointment. She seemed to be stressed and unease , […]

During my general block, I had a patient who was involved in a motor vehicle accident and sustained polytrauma including traumatic brain […]

Does verbal abuse trump a patients right to treatment? How much verbal abuse is a therapist expected to take before they are […]

Abortion is an old, but living topic for debate and disputation that remains controversial. It can defined as the process where an embryo […]

Big brown eyesA confused lookNo smile, no one nearBig brown eyes filled with fearI moved closer just to meet a glareThere was […]

A disheartening situation unfolded at a well-known hospital in Cape Town whereby a 14 year old male patient who had been […]

As much as we do not want to admit it, family is everything! It may seem as though it is nothing at […]

During my ICU block at Tygerberg Hospital I had to see a 46-year-old young male that had undergone a Coronary Artery Bypass […]