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joerene.avilesThe program is part of the SUNY system located at the University at Albany.
The program is part of the SUNY system located at the University at Albany.
This article address emergency response and public health in that providers are there to help patients and releive suffering and in doing that, specifically in times of crisis protocols are broken and morals come into play a little more. In this article a doctor euthanized suffering patients who may or may not have been rescued from the hospital during hurricane Katrina.
"The impaired body, the body unable to produce, was socially illegitimate, then."
"By analogy with the therapeutic mesasures applied at the end of life for patients suffering from illness deemed incurable, we can describe the measures and procedures devised to allow foreign patients without residence rights to stay in France, receive treatment, and have their living costs paid, as a compassion protocol."
"The logic of state sovereignty in the control of immigration clearly prevailed over the universality of the principle of the right to life. The compassion protocol had met its limit."
The Red Cross targets people to help who are suffering from a disaster.
This article used, testimonials, field research and analysis of the healthcare system and govermental policies.
The narrative is sustained through Atul Gawande's experience and research into improving his end-of-life care for his own patients by meeting with other healthcare professionals (oncologists, palliative care experts and surgeons), and analyzing his actions with his father. The film has strong emotional appeal, as loss of loved ones is a common experience, and difficult for all parties involved.
Scientific info isn't really in depth (disease processes aren't talked about) mostly just psycho-social aspects discussed.
The system relies on relationships with scientific institutions, government institutions, and educational institutions.
Violence against health care workers is the subject of the article so emergency medical response is addressed directly, but mostly within the context of humanitarian aid.
I looked further into land fill decomposition and other "islands" that have been made on landfills. I also looked further into the legal history of Riker Island and the typical inmates that are sent to this facility.
The article’s bibliography is quite long and includes a variety of sources, this suggests the author researched this topic in detail and thoroughly.