Should Ben Carson have surgery on the Makwaeba twins? In chapter 13 of Gifted Hands, Ben Carson had to perform a life or death surgery on two conjoined twins. Although he had performed the same surgery on a pair of conjoined twins by the name of Patrick and Benjamin Binder. Despite the praise that Ben received for trying to do the unsuccessful surgery, Ben received much hate for “killing the children”. Even though some claim that they were better off not doing the surgery, without a doubt I believe that he made the right choice. What could have happened if the surgery was successful outweighs what would have happened if they didn’t do the surgery. To begin with, if Ben didn’t do the surgery the twins would’ve passed anyway. To clarify, if the …show more content…
What this is saying is, if Ben decided that it wasn’t worth it and let the twins be. Their hearts would’ve shriveled up and weakened, therefore if the surgery wasn’t performed their hopes of living would be thrown out the window. So as you can see, if Carson never attempted the surgery, the Makwaeba twins still wouldn’t have a shot at life. Secondly Ben had experience with that kind of operation. To clarify, Seven years prior Ben got his first opportunity to operate on a set of craniopagus siamese twins, the Binder Twins. As a neurosurgeon who has dealt with that type of thing, Carson possessed the skills and knowledge necessary to attempt another complex surgical separation of conjoined twins.Carson's skills and preparation from the Binder Twins minimized the risks and increased the chances of a successful outcome for the twins. To tie it up, Ben was sure that he would be successful because of his experience with the operation. Lastly Ben had hope and was encouraged to be successful with the surgery. To explain, throughout the book Ben believed that the Lord wanted him to be a successful doctor. Specifically in Chapter 13 the author states,”He had hoped and prayed for these
As a final point, with the advances of using biomedical technology, scientists have the ability to cure cancer and prolong human life where they would’ve died if such advancements have not been made. The use of such technology should be used when the benefit outweighs the cost such as using it to benefit humanity and not just to choose if one’s child has blue eyes or brown eyes. I personally support the scientific breakthroughs that have been made over the recent years, yet, these advancements should only be used to cure/prevent diseases rather than to decide on one’s genes or to keep an elderly person on life support simply because it’s possible.
This required discussion that is regulated by the Nuremberg Code. In Flowers for Algernon the two doctors do not know exactly how to perform the procedure. The doctors also did not tell Charlie the effects that would later happen to him. It is an amazing idea to get your intelligence increased but it is not proven that it works, so it would be very dangerous. Increasing intelligence should not be performed until it is clear what the effects are and it needs to be safe. If the operation does work very successfully on the patient, the patient could do very sufficient things like building a car, curing cancer, or any disease. If the operation works successfully on you, you might tell or share the idea with your peers and they might want to have the operation performed too. They might go and get the operation performed and something may happen to them. The end of the operation could be misleading, as well as fatal. The operation is also not worth all of the money you paid if it isn’t permanent and only lasts for a few months, or does not turn out
Dr. Nemur and Dr Strauss are arguing about whether or not they should use Charlie,“Dr Nemur was worried about using me but Dr. Strauss told him Miss Kinnian recommended me the best from all the people who she was teaching”. This shows that Ms Kinnian recommended Charlie and most likely reviewed the surgery. Ms.Kinnian cares for Charlie, so would not recommend him without looking into the surgery. What this argument fails to consider is the fact that Ms. Kinnian was the only one that reviewed it. There was no other person allowed. Dr. Nemur even specifically told Charlie not to tell anyone, “ Joe Carp said hey look where Charlie had his operation what did they do Charlie put some brains in. I was going to tell him, but I remembered Dr. Strauss said no”. This goes to show how little people are allowed to know about the operation. Even the friend of the patient is not allowed to know. This is no ethical because then people that care are then not allowed to give their review on the subject. Therefore there may not be a proper amount of people that is needed for a proper
The only way to survive is to perform a heart transplant surgery on him, however, because of John's financial position and some other unknown factors, the HMO refuse to cover for the heart surgery. Thus, with his son's life on the edge of death, John without a choice decided to use his life and freedom to risk the chance of trading for his son’s access to free health care. In my own opinion, I believe that the method John used to solve this situation is unethical. Yes, I do agree that it is wrong
Throughout his life Ben Carson faced many trials and tribulations. All of which forced him to make life altering decisions. Going from a “disturbed” child and adolescent to an outstanding surgeon society would think Dr. Carson made the right choices, but along the way Ben wasn’t so sure.
The Ashley Treatment is a pretty novel and groundbreaking procedure with incredible ethical discord. This treatment was devised by the doctors of ...
It can be seen that the teacher mentioned in the writing may have been referring to the identity switch of a doctor, "According to him, the whole process should take about a year, but from the way things are going, I think we have less than a month left. " This seems to be the conclusion given by the "biology teacher" about evolution theory, but also indirectly reflects the severity of Ben's condition. As Annie continued to communicate with her lover, from "Can you understand me" to "Do you remember me," it can be seen that Ben's illness is not far from Alzheimer's disease.
Though the father's influence was quite indirect; he mostly figured in their afterglow and rather idealistic fancies, both of them became decent and hard-working people. At the age of seventeen, Ben left his home for Alaska, but soon found himself in Africa and at twenty-one he was already rich. He spent the rest of his life in Africa where he died. He was a wealthy, influential and successful man and fathered seven children. He preferred to be brutal but effective, as befits the jungles of life. On one of his brief visits to Willy's home he admonished Biff, his nephew: "Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."
Willy creates Ben in his mind because it gives him hope for not only himself, but also his sons. By creating Ben as a figure of his imagination, Willy has a false sense of security of thinking things can still change and life can be good.
Gifted Hands is the story of the world famous Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Ben Carson. The book tells of Carson’s journey from the bottom of his fifth grade class to his current position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In his autobiography Carson explains how a strong faith in god, and the help of an extremely strong mother, he was able to overcome not only the doubts of his classmates and teachers but also the doubts of his own intelligence, and turn his life around.
Originally I thought the parents were just cruel and wrong to purposefully make a child who was deaf, I sincerely thought there were many more disabilities a deaf person would deal with in life. But after careful thought, I agree with the parents that it is morally justified for them to at least try to have a child that will be born deaf
The case study involving Dr. Robert Smith and his patients is a very intense, yet gruesome study that involves much analysis. When you first hear about amputating completely healthy limbs, it's deemed as a very bizarre request. For most people with common sense, you would think that people who want to do that are crazy and shouldn't be allowed to. However, looking further into why a person may want that done can change your judgement. In this case regarding Dr. Smith, he was okay with performing operations on his patients no matter how strange the situation was. Although Dr. Smith had already done two procedures, he was stopped from doing a third amputation from the hospital board. I believe that the hospital board was not morally justified in their decision to refuse permission for Dr. Smith to perform a third amputation for several reasons involving bioethics.
...ously complex. Of course, it depends on how the twins are attached. In any event, these separation surgeries are exceedingly risky and life-threatening. A surgical separation of conjoined twins that would kill the other twin would raise complex ethical, legal and moral issues. Even if the conjoined twins could feasibly be separated, imposing such a life-threating surgery violates the civil rights of the innocent twin and poses yet another problem to the legal system. The logistics of an enforced separation would be prohibitive and extraordinary complicated since there is no guarantee that appropriate surgery would not result in fatality of the innocent twin. Medical experts estimate that the rate of successful separation surgeries are at a dismal low rate. In such cases, sentencing conjoined twins to enforced separation would be much like imposing a death sentence.
Remember though, that in America, it doesn’t matter what cards you are dealt, it only matters how you play the hand, and the Carson family managed to play their hand quite well. Today, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world’s top brain surgeons.
Reality is not as great as it seems being a salesman has not gotten the lifestyle he wants to attain. Ben is someone who symbolizes his hopes as well as