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Competency Reflection 3
MHACB/508: Navigating The Regulatory Environment in Healthcare
Lisa Galli
1/18/2024
Tesa Brown
Donna Lindsay
Part 1: Contemporary Ethics I do not agree with Lengauer’s analogy, his comparison between cells from the human body and oil is ethically concerning and reduces the importance of what we value in life. dignity, privacy, and freedom. Some of the interactions of the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” that would now be prohibited by laws, statues and acts we covered this week:
Henrietta had to travel to John Hopkins because it was the closest hospital that would provide medical care to poor black women. The patients’ rights bill ensures all patients receive quality healthcare despite their race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
Henrietta’s tumor was biopsied, and the cells extracted and used for research with her knowledge and consent. Today’s laws require the provider to obtain the patients consent to perform procedures and to provide treatment.
Henrietta’s medical records had been shared with the press violating her right to privacy. Todays HIPPA laws protect patients’ health information from being disclosed without the patients consent. (2010)
Informed Consent is both a legal and ethical obligation of healthcare providers, Christoph Lengauer’s views on how cells should be treated goes against this law. Part 2: Contemporary Perspectives After reading the “Root Cause Analysis “ from the Salem Press Encyclopedia, I appreciated and agreed with the authors comparison of a root cause analysis, to the scientific method. In the case of Henrietta Lasks, the root cause analysis process was to determine the problem: Henrietta’s cells were taken for research with out her consent. The second step in the root cause analysis is to determine the cause, in this case there were several causes. The scientific discovery of the HeLa Cells occurred in 1951, this was the very beginning of the civil rights movement. This was a time in history when black
people were segregated from white people, they were looked down upon and
did not have the same rights as white people. It is very clear that Henriettas cells were taken because she was black and it is very likely they just felt they
could take what was needed without consent because her consent didn’t matter. She was poor, unable to afford healthcare services that white people could receive, and she was a black woman. Her skin color determined how she was treated. The last step of the root analysis is to formulate a solution. The disservice and injustice Henrietta experienced positively changed the
healthcare industry as it became an opportunity for laws to be created, enforcing privacy, and consent. (2023) The second scholarly journal title “Thirteen ways of looking at Henrietta Lacks” was very interesting. From the title I thought to myself, a person, a woman, a mother, a wife and a hero, however that is not what this reading is
about. This reading is about the many aspects of change and discovery that benefited healthcare. (2016) I hate to admit this but I agree with the author, although I do feel it was wrong, unethical, and horrible that Henrietta was treated as if she had no value in the world, had they requested her consent and she declined what would healthcare look like today? HeLa cells have been used to save millions of people, had she decline that would not be have
been possible. We may not have had so many discoveries HeLa has provided, such as the polio vaccination, cancer aiding medications, COVID vaccines, and HIV treatments. The need for privacy and laws protecting our rights, although I believe we would have those laws at this time in healthcare
they may have been delayed if these events did not occur as they had. I would like to circle back to my first statement, Henrietta Lasks was a person,
a woman, a wife and a hero who unknowingly changed the healthcare industry and saved millions. Bohannan, A. S. (2023). Root Cause Analysis
(RCA).
Salem Press Encyclopedia
Lantos, J. D. (2016). THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT HENRIETTA LACKS. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 59(2), 228-233. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/thirteen-ways-looking-
at-henrietta-lacks/docview/1876059666/se-2
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-. (2010). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
New York: Random House Audio,
Beskow L. M. (2016). Lessons from HeLa Cells: The Ethics and Policy of Biospecimens.
Annual review of genomics and human genetics,
17, 395–417. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genom-
083115-022536
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