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Question: Write an Op-Ed (Opinion-Editorial) piece that allows you to demonstrate an understanding of how issues relating to the dignity of the human person and the realization of the common good may be addressed by you in your professional practice now and in the future. Answer: Human Dignity in Human and Health Services: An Op-Ed Two years ago in a hospital in Madison, Alabama, Dr. Ronald Wyatt faced an uncomfortable situation. As he was about to attend a patient for treatment, a couple walked in to his room and closed the door. According to them, their daughter was a patient in the hospital two years ago, who could not survive even after treatment. The woman showed the doctor the picture of her daughter to the doctor and asked for answers. Searching the database, Dr. Wyatt found that the girl was really a patient and he explained to the couple that he and his team worked very hard to save her. After some time, the couple left peacefully. However, in a later interview, Dr. Wyatt raised an issue that although this couple left peacefully, the situation could entirely been different if the couple suddenly turned hostile and even shoot him. Moreover, he also said that he could not have saved himself if such a situation occurred. Dr. Wyatts interview raised a lot of eyebrows and concerns grew regarding protection of human dignity in human and health services. From this incident above, we can naturally ask ourselves where are we heading in healthcare services? It is evident from various incidents around the world that more and more doctors in hospitals are under constant threats of violence from the patients families if the patients do not survive even after treatment. The question which also arises in this regard is why are the doctors under these constant threats (Cheraghi, Manookian Nasrabadi, 2014). Even a few years ago, doctors were treated like Gods and people relied on them in any health issues. In order to find the root causes behind these, we need to look into other related factors that are also influencing peoples opinions regarding the healthcare services. First of all, one cause for this hostile behavior can be the rapid growth of private hospitals that care more about business rather than healthcare. Although these private hospitals have modern facilities and reputed doctors, the patients have to go through a long process for admission like registration, form fill up, partial payment, booking of room and others. In many emergency cases, this long process has cost the lives of the patients (Edlund et al., 2013). From the ethical point of view, healthcare is the basic human right and denying it unless the entire admission process is completed strips of the right as well as the dignity of the patients. Hence, it is very much logical for patients families to show their anger on the hospitals. Second reason can be the increase in extreme emotional outbursts of people that are caused by various factors (which are out of scope of this op-ed). It has been seen that because of the different causes, more and more people are showing strong emotional outbursts at slightest of reasons and death of a certain patient during treatment is a major incident (Sharkey, 2014). Whenever such an incident occurs, the patients families turn hostile and start showing anger and protests against the doctors and the nurses of the hospital. There have been numerous incident reports where the doctors and nurses were severely beaten and injured by the protests. According to my opinion, this should never happen. The patients families should understand that no doctor is practical sense will not try to save a patient or deliberately ill-treat so that the patient dies (Matiti, 2015). It is the lack of proper administration in the hospital that results in these incidents. In addition, in some cases, by the time the patient reaches the hospital, the doctors have nothing to do to save him / her. I also think that the governments should take active actions in order to address these issues. These incidents violate human dignity and ethics for both the patients and the doctors whereas the hospital as a middleman earns the money from the admission payments (Manookian, Cheraghi Nasrabadi, 2014). Before allowing license to private hospitals, the government should enforce certain sets of guidelines that should include immediate admission and treatment of patient without conducting such long admission processes. This will at least reduce the incidents of death of patient due to lack of treatment or mob attacks on the doctors due to death of a patient. References Cheraghi, M. A., Manookian, A., Nasrabadi, A. N. (2014). Human dignity in religion-embedded cross-cultural nursing.Nursing ethics,21(8), 916-928. Edlund, M., Lindwall, L., Post, I. V., Lindstrm, U. . 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