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My patients are dying. But it’s their right to keep going Background information: >Carleen+Taylor: "Our beautiful 22 year old son was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.  Stage 3. 5 months later his docs gave up on him. He wanted to continue fighting.  We were then going to move him to another hospital for treatment. Before dischargeing him they did a pain procedure. Proper precautions not taken and he aspirated   He lived on a ventilator for 7 weeks before passing from complications of the aspiration.  Had his docs not given up on him he may still be here.  They just abandoned him when the going got tough.  You don’t do that to a 23 year old" Cancer is an unpleasant way to die, my mother said if she knew the the end would be so hard she wouldn't have stuck around so long. But at least it usually provides enough time to choose another way out. I hope I don't become so incapacitated by dementia or other illness that society prevents that " An ...

Patients right to keep fighting This article got me! It was really hard to go through it, I felt as if the writer were talking to me, I couldn't stop thinking about one of my grandparents suffering from a terrible disease. It was pretty obvious doctor was totally in agreement, but at the same time he was totally scared for his patients suffering: " This leaves me in an uncomfortable state: caught between my medical recommendation to pursue less aggressive care and my patient’s primal desire to rid his body of cancer " But even though for doctors, it is difficult to accept the different changes and the aftermath that chemical procedures can make: "She is only 34 years old, but after two rounds of chemotherapy, her youth is steadily leaving her ." It is sad knowing that people are suffering from these terrible diseases just like Cancer, but the worst of all is knowing that sometimes treatment is worse than illness itself, a clear example of agreement on...

The way you take bad news influences how you think, when someone tells you, you are doing something wrong, you can take it either in a positive or negative way, so here we can learn that emotions may influence our critical thinking. Critical and creative thinking take place basically because we need to identify the assumptions and check them for accuracy in order to make decisions, create new ideas and choose the correct choice, but the real reason way you think critically is because you need to prepare yourself to inform actions. If you may think creatively then you may think about the different and multiple views in the different situations you may face, you have to think creatively in order to move out of the typical mental framework you are living, to have different and multiple ideas about an activity. Assumptions can make you change your thinking. There are three different types of assumptions: *Casual: This type explains a sequence of events that might happen i...

Reflection: emotional self-management.  For me, the emotions that are most difficult to manage when others disagree with me are:  Frustration because there are some people that do not understand that everyone is free to think the way they want, there are some who want you to think the way they think I deal with that by:  I really try to breath and think that we are all humans and that everyone has a different point of view even though they do not think the same way I do, they deserve respect. Reflection: influences on my thinking For me, the influences on my own thinking that I need to be most aware of so they don’t prejudice my thinking are: My background and the experiences, I need to be aware of them because when I’m discussing something, I tend to think in a wrong way due to something that may had happened to me. I will deal with this by: Trying not to mix my experiences or background with my thinking. Reflection: challenging opinions...