One of a parent 's worst fear is to live longer than their children. At what lengths should a parent go to try to save the life of their child dying from cancer? The film "My Sister 's Keeper" (2009) shows a mother willing to do almost anything to save her oldest daughter from dying to cancer and it 's effects on her marriage and the other children in the family. This film deals with many ethical issues found within the health system while also showing how class can give a family more options in their healthcare. We will examine how income and class can change a families healthcare options, then we will look at how Sara Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz) and her doctor may have broken two ethical principles of medicine, nonmaleficence and beneficence, …show more content…
The doctor provided access to a treatment that people with less money would not be able to afford. Head and Cohen (2015) explain that there are "three major pathways by which socioeconomic status exerts an influence on health: access to quality health care, environmental exposure, and health behavior (p. 200). This is problematic because it is clearly putting a price tag on quality health care. There are treatments that will not be covered by insurance, and will have a significant price attached to them. This can lead to haves and have-nots in the health care system. Another aspect to look at is the fact that Sara and her family lived in Los Angeles. There are many treatments today that are not accessible to people that live in rural or poor cities across America. This creates problems because families will have to move to areas to meet their treatment needs, or they will have to forgo certain treatments because it is not feasible/affordable to send the patient to another city or to move the entire family. When a family can afford the treatment and has access to it, we still have to consider whether or not the treatment is …show more content…
Sara only thought about saving Kate 's life, she didn 't consider the safety and health of Anna during the treatments. While Sara may have been blinded by her "need" to save Kate, the providers should have considered Anna 's safety. The providers have to take into consideration nonmaleficence: "risks should be clearly outweighed by the benefits of treating a patient" (Scott & Iannarino, 2015, p. 298). While the treatments are beneficial to Kate, they are dangerous to Anna. This is especially true for a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant would have zero benefits to the donor and all risk. This clearly goes against nonmaleficence. This also bring up the principle of beneficence, where "healthcare providers should act in a patient 's best interest by working to restore the patient 's health or relieve the patient 's suffering" (Scott & Iannarino, 2015, p. 298). By not looking at the benefits of the donor, which is zero, they are putting the donor at risk for a possible benefit to one person. This can lead to a place where one life is considered more important than another. While there are many ethical problems that the providers face, they also have the task of communicating with surrogates for the care of their
For anyone who has ever worked in healthcare, or simply for someone who has watched a popular hit television show such as Grey’s Anatomy, General Hospital, House or ER know that there can be times when a doctor or health care provider is placed in extremely difficult situations. Often times, those situations are something that we watch from the sidelines and hope for the best in the patient’s interest. However, what happens when you place yourself inside the doctors, nurses, or any other of the medical provider’s shoes? What if you were placed in charge of a patient who had an ethically challenging situation? What you would you do then? That is precisely what Lisa Belkin accomplishes in her book “First Do No Harm”. Belkin takes the reader on
Gedge, E., & Waluchow, W. (2012). Readings in health care ethics (2nd ed.). Toronto, Ontario: Broadview Press.
Unlike real life, a film can limit its scope to only the objects, characters, and settings that are important to its story. Despite these limitations, a classical film attempts to get the viewer to believe in the film’s diegetic elements so that as much of the audience as possible is emotionally fulfilled when the story ends. The Philadelphia Story maintains a sense of believability by downplaying its stylistic elements so that the audience remains immersed in the film’s universe. For example, a sequence where the film subtly utilizes stylistic elements to a great effect is when Lord is attempting to convince a journalist, Macaulay Connor, and a photographer, Elizabeth Imbrie, that she is an idealistically feminine bride-to-be. Lord enters the scene speaking French with Dinah. Connor, Imbrie, and most of the film’s audience cannot
Michael Moore uses pathos to arouse emotions and persuade the audience to agree with his perspective on America’s health care system. Throughout his film, he includes interviews of those who have lost their loves ones due to their problems with their insurance company in the United States. The most unforgettable and affective interview was the one with Dawnelle Keys. When her two-year-old daughter, Mychelle, developed a fever of over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, her healthcare company, Kaiser, claimed to support Mychelle only at its in-network hospital. Thus, after hours of delay, she got transported to Kaiser’s hospital, but unfortunately got into cardiac arrest and pronounced dead upon arrival. Thinking back to this incident, a great pain wails upon Dawnelle in her interview, and streams of tears roll down her cheeks. This heartbreaking scene makes the audience feel attached to and have great sympathy ...
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The 13th, a documentary by Ava DuVernay, was released this year on Netflix. The hour and forty minute film makes visible a link between slavery in the United States and the modern day prison system. Specifically DuVernay looks at how race and the subjugation of black and brown bodies have been to forefront of these modern day prisons. DuVernay nicely ties in the social and economic factors behind the mass incarceration related to the progression of the US on the backs of black bodies. Through the use of statistical data it proves how pure racist reasoning in the United States has programed both white and blacks in America to fear the black body. Where the film falls short is that it represents black people as the face of the black men, and
For as long as there have been jokes, there have been people saying that women can’t tell them. For over a century figures in popular culture have publicly peddled this claim of misconception. In 1884 Richard Grant White, one of the most powerful cultural critics of the 19th century, wrote, “a sense of humor is the rarest qualities in a women”, to Jerry Lewis in 1998 stating he “cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator”, and more recently in 2012 Adam Carolla, arguing, “The Reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks” (Moss). If there is anything that can put these men in their place it is the cinematic success of Paul Feig’s 2011 film Bridesmaids. Since its release, the film has been nominated for 24 different awards, won 6, and has generated over $288 million in sales worldwide, making it the highest-grossing-R-rated female comedy of all time (Buckley 5). Bridesmaids, thus, represents how the symbol of women in the space of cinema is being challenged and changed.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
“The Help” is a white mock feel good movie, which seems to feature amnesia of racial conflicts in the South as its primary theme (Stockett, 2009). Author Natasha McLaughlin suggests that ‘The Help’ focuses upon the home and the relationship between African-American domestics and the laws of Jim Crow’s neglected ‘other half’: Jane Crow (McLaughlin, 2014). The American Civil Rights Movement mainly accommodates the public with a view concentrated upon a male dominant perspective but appreciations to Stockett and her moving interpretation of the relationship of Caucasian housewives and their African-American maids the public gets a rare white-washed version of events dealing with the civil rights movement going on within the interior of the households
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
When one initially chooses a career path, one rarely looks at all the negatives that may be associated with that choice. Most career paths have some negatives associated with the field, but few face the moral dilemmas associated with modern healthcare. Those who choose to be in the healthcare profession today are faced with moral and ethical dilemmas that would make King Solomon tear his hair out. In many cases, doctors, and sometimes nurses, are faced with life and death decisions without the benefit of knowing the patient’s, or the patient’s family’s, wishes. However, aside from those tragic times when a patient’s wishes are unknown, healthcare professionals must always put their own morals aside, and act
In the movie Brothers, I saw relational turbulence between the wife and husband. Relational turbulence is when people react to an interpersonal situation that ordinarily would not be significant; due to difficult times in the relationship, changes in behavior are more noticeable (Katz, 2015). One of the main components in relational uncertainty. One of the scenes where this is seen was during dinner, the husband got up and left the dinner table when the kids mentioned the uncle. When the wife went to check on him, she wanted to know about what happened to him while he was away, but the only thing he could focus on was if she slept with his brother. Even though he had asked his brother if he slept with the wife and he answered, the husband was
Today’s society protects against discrimination through laws, which have been passed to protect minorities. The persons in a minority can be defined as “a group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society” (The Free Dictionary). It is not ethical for any person to discriminate based on race or ethnicity in a medical situation, whether it takes place in the private settings of someone’s home or in a public hospital. Racial discrimination, in a medical setting, is not ethical on the grounds of legal statues, moral teachings, and social standings.
Showtime Movie: “Sister” Review An out of work actor, Billy Presser, who has been estranged from his family, suddenly finds himself the primary caregiver of an adopted sister Niki that he has never known. After the death of his father, his mother Susan is widowed and has an emotional breakdown. Susan is bipolar and has had issues throughout her life; ergo, her behavior is often deemed inappropriate with her intentions and parenting skills questionable. Niki was adopted after Billy and his other sister Ashley had left the nest.
Pure innocence mixed with pure evil is a frightening combination present in the wildly popular evil child genre of horror films.. In analyses of these movies, Evil children generally fall into one of three archetypes, the feral child, the monstrous infant, and the possessed child, are commonly analysed in a few common ways. The feral child is usually taken as warning against humans inherently evil nature, while the monstrous infant warns of the dangers of new medicine. Often the only archetype which is connected the parents is the possessed child. Their problems are often tied to family problems at home.