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Mid-Term Project
Mid-Term Project
Yordanka Nardoni
SOCI3310: Cultural Diversity
Dr. Amber E. George
December 6, 2023
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It has been shown in recent years that is a very fine line in the healthcare system at this time. Doctors nowadays must be discrete in their decision when saving lives. Beforehand we must understand the federal and state laws and understand different cultural views and beliefs. The Conscience and Religious Nondiscrimination Right, the “Federal statutes protect health care providers conscience rights and prohibit recipients of certain federal funds from discriminating against health care providers who refuse to participate in certain services based on moral objections or religious beliefs.” https://www.hhs.gov/conscience/conscience-protections/index.html
. Furthermore, all doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, by pledging to provide favorable treatments, concurring with their capabilities and judgment; to abstain from causing harm or hurt. In many cases, doctors just act in life-threatening situations for one purpose only, and that is to save that life. Correspondingly, we must research and know the different religious beliefs in the case of Jehovah’s witness regarding blood transfusion. In many circumstances, religious beliefs like Jehovah’s Witnesses trust that it is in contradiction to God’s will to receive blood. The approval of blood transfusions by Jehovah’s Witnesses has in many cases led to shunning from and ostracization by their religious community.
In the case of Susi Givens, the problem led to an unfortunate outcome, even though the
doctor was attempting to save her life disregarded her being a Jehovah's witness decision, and
transfused blood, ignoring her rights even if was unconscious and in critical condition. In my
professional research, many cases like this go to court, and the judge awards the patient amount
of money due to violation of their religious and beliefs rights. But I believe that we are in the
crossfire, medically the physician's actions were completely justified, the young patient would
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have died, a mother, a daughter a wife. As a healthcare provider having a patient decease
knowing that it could have been saved is horrifying for everybody including the family.
Congruently, the legal outcome was not justified, it was not assault or medical error it
was an ethical decision. From their psychological point of view, the patient is not able to
understand the seriousness of the circumstances due to her ideology. I believe that the outcome
of the situation would have been similar, the patient would have gotten more critical, leaving the
family in grief, and distressed, and the doctor would have been sued for negligence and
abandonment of treatment by the husband.
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https://www.hhs.gov/conscience/conscience-protections/index.html
Thompson H. A. (1989). Blood transfusions and Jehovah's Witnesses. Texas medicine, 85(4), 57–59.
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/solemn-truth-about-medical-oaths
https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-the-Hippocratic-Oath.aspx
https://www.medicalprotection.org/southafrica/casebook/casebook-may-2014/the-
challenges-of-treating-jehovah%27s-witnesses
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?
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Diller, J. V. (2014). Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services (5th ed.). Cengage Learning US. https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781305177536
Petrini C. (2014). Ethical and legal aspects of refusal of blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses, with particular reference to Italy. Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue, 12 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), s395–s401. https://doi.org/10.2450/2013.0017-13