Week 2 - Reflection
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1 Week 2 - Reflection
Instructor: S. Riley PHIL222 – Ethics in Health and Human Services
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The case study I have chosen to write about is the protective parent. I am against what the mother is doing to her daughter in this case study. The daughter had leukemia when she was younger, but it had disappeared, and she told all of the doctors not to tell her daughter about her diagnosis. Her daughter got older and at the age of 17 the daughter was re-diagnosed with leukemia again and she wanted the doctors to do the same thing by not telling her daughter of her diagnosis. The doctor asked the mother why she wanted them to lie and said it was an unusual anemia, she replied and said, “ I had enough problems to deal with”. The mother then asked the doctor where she lived, and the doctor answered. The mother replied and said all her friends live in that area she is afraid they will find out from the doctor. My stance on the mother keeping her daughter away from knowing about what diseases linger throughout her daughter's body and well-being is unethical. I do not understand how anyone can control what can be disclosed to themselves in a serious situation such as this one. I believe that the daughter should have the right to know what is going on with her well-being and her health conditions. The ethical stand that I would use to back me up will be the utility. Utilitarian believes that they determine right from wrong by focusing on the outcomes. One outcome that I could see occurring is her Leukemia activating again without her knowing. What if she believes the symptoms that she has are normal because she never knew there was something wrong with her? Then it may become evident to someone else before she even realizes it herself. Depending on the Leukemia it would either be acute or chronic. Acute is the fast-acting one that
can spread fast from days to week rather than chronic which is a slowly spreading cancer that typically spreads months to years.
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So how can not telling her benefit her? It can only harm her. You know she has it so you can be better prepared not ill-prepared. Knowing that she has it will increase her chances of surviving because you will be able to catch it in the earlier stages. The two alternatives would be risking it being chronic hopefully you have enough time and catch it soon enough, or it being acute and it being fast acting and death occur. To suddenly stop these alternatives and come back to reality we could simply just inform her because she has a right to know.
Maybe the mother is trying to protect her, however she is going the wrong way about it. Do not
treat it as if it does not exist because you do not want it to, treat it as a real threat because that is what it is. Now we can take the proper precautions to make sure we exterminate it as soon as it arrives if it ever does. In the end, she should know, she has every right to it is her body and her life on the line. Wouldn't you want to know?
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