Informed Consent Issue

If investigators had taken my family's cells/tissues without informed consent, I would feel like the law is not in order and would call for a premise on why the investigators took the cells without telling the family members. I feel like as of the 21st century, it is courtesy to let the patient/distributor know what is going on in any given situation, in the case of family member's cells being taken: informed consent. With my family being naive towards western medicine and their endeavors, they wouldn't care but I would say I care enough to speak out about it.
Many bystanders would turn a blind eye and just pretend that the taking of cells didn't happen or that it will benefit some cause, and I agree. A cause could be benefited and many average citizens are oblivious to what giving away tissue can do for the other party. Although states have different procedural approaches to certain circumstances, like these of informed consent, some systems need to be improved to prevent un-informed consent from happening.

Sources For Malpractice

1. Chandra, Ashish, Kristy Dickens, and Roger Durand. "Healthcare Consumers' Beliefes about Medical Malpractice Lawsuits." Hospital Topics 87.2 (2009): 26-30. Print.

2. Duthie, Elizabeth, Barbara Favreau, and Ellen Flink. "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Medication Errors: The New York Experience." Advances in Patient Safety 1 (2005): 131-144. Print.

3. Haskel, Michael, John McCabe, Jeremy Zenilman, and Michael Zenilman. "Closed Claim Review From a Single Carrier In New York." The American Journal of Surgery 203.6 (2012): 733-740. Print.

4. Howard, Tim, Goran Ridic, and Ognjen Ridic. "Medical Malpractice in Connecticut: Defensive Medicine, Real Problem or a Red Herring - Example of Assessment of Quality Outcomes Variables." Acta Informatica Medica 20.1 (2012): 32-39. Print.

5. Igel, Lee. "The Forgotten Hysteria Over Malpractice." Social Science and Public Policy 47 (2010): 525-528. Print.

6. Mehlman, Maxwell. "Medical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice Safe Harbors: Illusion or Deceit?." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 40.2 (2012): 286-300. Print.

Electronic Source Variable

A source that talks a lot about medical controversy would be a good place to start. Through first page results on Google, I can say that the Journal of Ethics is a good place to start. Medical malpractice is tied to the embodiment of bioethics and ethics in general. The Journal talks about many of these topics of what is perceived as good and manners next to human error examples, like medical malpractice.

Research Proposal

Just from looking at the list of suggested topics, I spotted medical malpractice first and decided I should try to find out a little more about the medical world of science since I favor science. So I will give malpractice rarity a shot, and say that malpractice is a common error professionals perform.

Rhetorical Analysis Outline

       I.         Introduction

A.     Ongoing Idea of Environmentally-Friendly Cars

·        Facts on Hybrid Cars

·        Arguments about the subject

B.     Thesis; The writer demonstrates clear understanding of how the usage of hybrid and electric cars outweighs the production of the car and outweighs the usage of gasoline cars

     II.          Argument for hybrid cars

A.     Why is it good?

1.      Environment

·        Environmental Costs and benefit to the costs

2.      Physique

·        Engine differences

3.      (Another Idea)

    III.          Argument against hybrid cars

A.     Why is it bad?

A.      Environment

·        Environmental Awareness

B.     Limitation

·        Performance

C.     Costs

·        Production outweighing environmental opportunity costs

·        Differences in car costs (MSRP)

    IV.          Pathos

A.     Use of Pros rather than cons

·        Choice of words

·        Appealing to general audience

B.     Emotion

·        Opinions

     V.          Logos

A.     Science

·        Usage of information

B.     Usage of facts

·        Arrangement of logical reasoning to prove point

    VI.          Ethos

A.     Creditability

·        Background on author and/or website

B.     Source where article derives idea from

  VII.          Conclusion

A.     The subtle idea proposed in the article

·        Idea for the future

Electronic Literacy Narrative

David Wu

ENGL-191

Hennes, Jack

9/5/12

Electronic Literacy

     Technology has evolved so that people can do a lot of things on a cell phone. I'd prefer a phone that gives me unlimited access to whatever, whenever I want as oppose to someone else that may have different views, and that's why there is a different type of phone for everyone out there. But previously, I had thought I was an individual who didn't need a phone because I thought it was just another big, heavy bulk of metal and plastic weight to carry around, and would only be cumbersome to my daily errands so I never asked my parents for one until they said that I will need a phone to contact them if anything important comes up. So when I first got a phone, it wasn't much to me and I didn't carry it around a lot. But then I started adding my friends' contact numbers into the phone and from there I got something known as a 'text message' and it was the first time I saw strange letters with a combination of numbers and special characters, also the text message being very short compared to a grammatically correct sentence.

     That was my first time seeing a text message, and also not knowing what the message meant. And at that time, I had just gotten my phone so I didn't know text messages needed to come with a 'text messaging plan' otherwise there will be extra charges incurred. Still, I text messaged friends and asked them why they use shortened words and other slang. Luckily and gradually they started telling me their perspective on 'texting' and how they don't want to read long messages so they shorten the whole message. My friends taught me how to shorten words too so I could become faster and more street-smart when it came to texting. In the process of my friends teaching me, I began to understand using shorter words and also I noticed how much of a visual-oriented person I am. For example, when I get a text saying something like, 溺eet at the parkI see green-colored grass covered in yellow sunlight with an empty baseball field that still has skid marks from previous slides performed by athletes and there would be a long, gray bench next to the long park pavement that splits the tennis court and the far stretched meadow. The pictures that came to my head helped me keep my brain constantly thinking and constantly improving on analytical thinking. I started developing a more open-minded view of the world.

     Text messaging may have given me a good idea of how the modern day society works in terms of communications, but has become a big problem in my life. I have lost a lot of encouragement from using shortened words and smaller sentences. Therefore, I feel less obligated to write notes down, or read a thick book. I also feel discouraged toward reading in general and I have noticed my reading speed has decreased dramatically from the constant use of text messaging and use of internet slang. Being able to take long notes and discuss aloud and communicate verbally is very beneficial for me, as I know I'm not just a visual learner but a kinesthetic learner, too. Still with the ability to utilize smaller sentences and shortened words, I feel like electronics have made life more increasingly easy and with it, lazy. I feel like I've become more lazy because of so much technology; a laptop to write notes in so I don't have to physically use a pen or pencil, a smart-phone to find information quickly whenever I'm curious, and a voice recorder to listen to a lecture or discussion over so I don't need to take notes down.

Technology makes me lazy and require a lot less thinking. I can just look up information if I needed to, and I don't have to walk around and ask a teacher, tutor or assistant for help. I feel like the cell phone, and smart-phones in specific, gives me options to slack off, too. I can look up reviews on certain passages or text in a book, and find solid evidence for backing up answers to analytical and interpretable text so I feel like my whole category on reading skills has fallen far off the edge and I still feel like I am falling behind. But even if electronics makes my life easier so that I don't have to do much work, I feel like my writing skills toward fictional stories has not changed one bit from years back. I can write fictional stories anywhere, anytime, on paper, on the phone, or on the computer.

     I won't be bashful of how instant messaging affects me, but I think messaging has really opened a new path in regards to my social life. Before text messaging, to my friends, I would be considered 'old-fashioned' or 'not in with the new' which meant to me that I was not 'up to date' on their standards. And this is just because, even with a cell phone, I was calling people and actually talking on the phone. Later on, I began to realize though that my friends and I could be in a situation where it would be uncomfortable to talk aloud or a situation that would require us to pick up the phone right away. So from my peers' points of view and my realization of such situations occurring, I started text messaging. And text messaging was a great way to communicate actually; I could answer a text message twenty or maybe even forty minutes later as opposed to a situation where I call someone and they don't pick up so I get frustrated. There's no doubt in my mind about the other advantage, thinking before I type words or backspacing words that is not right for the situation. I can see a text message, and really think and visual what I would say to this particular person, and get a ton of time to really write something to me that's 'street-smart' or 'cool.' If problems do occur and I see the problems on text messages, I won't have to worry as much as if I was actually in that situation where I can't think of something to say on the spot.

     Text messaging really has pros and cons to me. I can't even explain all the situations where I had to wait minutes before sending a text message. But also, shortening words help a lot to me. I feel like I can explain paragraphs of text in just one, small, less than thirty words text message. Although I expected too much from text messaging, and I got lazy towards reading, I would say that if text messaging hadn't occur in my life, I wouldn't be where I am now in the social aspect of my life.