Ethics, Morals, and Laws in Healthcare: A Case Study on Brain Tumour

Scenario: Medical
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
In United Kingdom, extensive health related laws exist which help in preventing people
from getting any severe disease or health condition. Laws like Public Health, Mental Health,
Disability and Health and Safety Laws confers protection and promotion of healthy practices in
UK. The ethical principle are Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Justice, Utilitarianism
which help medical practitioner to follow designed guidelines and ensures that patients are
getting valid and relevant health support. The report will discuss ethics, morals and various laws
in healthcare in context with brain tumour.
MAIN BODY
Brain tumour is defined as a bundle of abnormal cells which may gets collected inside an
individual's brain. The tumour may be malignant or benign, which may either get concentrated at
one region or can move to other parts of brain (Johnstone and Facn, 2019). Once the tumour
initiates to grow it lead into increasing the pressure inside an individual skull which may cause
complete brain damage or death. A 13 year boy lives in London, United Kingdom has been
diagnosed from brain tumour, thus doctors have suggested complex radiation and
chemotherapies to treat the cancer. The parents of boy refused to undergo such treatment method
which have adversely affected child's condition and with the time it will be worse. The victim
has started to skip school and have difficulty in concentrating, memorising, balancing. Due to
refusal of his parents regrading treatment, the boy have started to face personality and mood
change followed by alteration in speech or vision. Due to such mental stress, the child was
unable to communicate with other individuals in an effective way and his conditions tends to
become worse as he was not able to share his feelings and thoughts with anybody. Boy felt
difficulty in remaining independent and he became quite isolated from the society. Child was
unable to conduct his daily routine activities properly and he become dependent of her mother.
However, due to personality and mood change, selected individual was not able to maintain
healthy and positive relationship with his friends and family. Mind functioning of boy become
disturbed and he tends to behave abnormal. Behaviour of body was rude and there was a
modification in his thought process. Person would not be able to acquire his life gaols as there
could be occurrence of chronic pain after sometime as the condition is going to be worse. Such
problems could be long lasting if boy's father remain on his decision for not helping him to treat
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