HANSOL MUN - One of my peers in class wrote about University of Texas' campus carry and open carry law and how it would influence the usage of gun and increase the amount of harm it will do to the students. Mr, Mun makes a valid argument, and in which I agree on, that students can not be trusted with such deadly weapon and will increase the possible chance of using them to relief their personal desire. And how international students that come from different country to study aboard at UT will be a disappointment and a threat to them.
The logical point Mr. Mun made at some degree we all can agree on. Guns are deathly, people are stupid. However, I wonder if Mr. Mun did not see any benefits from campus carry and open carry. Because as I read his article, he did not point out any factual advantages to students being able to protect themselves. Although I, too, believe that campus carry should be limited in campuses, there are inevitable facts to having able to carry guns. With all the current events going on about homeless people filling up the Drag or the tragic death of a freshmen student that was murdered, having campus carry seems kind of necessary when walking around UT campus alone. There are many cases where a school was in locked down because of a armed person roaming around the classroom. If teachers were able to carry guns, the thirty or more students would be insignificantly much more safer. If the movie theatre you are in is attacked by a mentally ill patient who insanely just wants to kill everyone, the crowd would be able to survive the attack. Sadly, these events happen and people are killed and robbed at public places and their own homes. Many would argue that only if they had guns, they would be alive today.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
MAKE GOSSIPING ILLEGAL
STATESMAN - Houston, Texas, a patient records her surgeon because of the way she was treated before the surgery to find out that they make negative remarks about her and her body.
A woman named Ethel Esther notified the doctor saying that she needed a immediate attention because of her pain. The doctor responded that she had to wait for two months like everyone else. She kept arguing that she needed to push forward the surgery and the doctor abruptly said, "Who do you think you are? You have to wait just like everyone else". The hospital ended up pushing the schedule forward but this conflict led Esther to be skeptic about the surgeon and decided to record a audio tape during the surgery by putting a small USB recorder in her hair. She later finds the recording and what she hears is bunch of negative remarks of her and her body. She notified a complaint to the hospital but the hospital responded saying that they have decided not to take any further actions on the remarks nor the doctors. Here is the following statement the surgeons exchanged.
"She's a handful. She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn't book for case in two weeks"
"She said, 'I'm going to call a lawyer and file a complaint"
"That doesn't seem like the thing to say to the person who's going to do your surgery"
"Did you see her belly button?"
"I can touch her" (DQ)
I'm arguing over this article because I believe that Texas should enhance their patient protective law to where gossiping and/or remarks such as the one Esther received by her surgeon should be illegal and have consequences. Now, I understand that she probably was being hard to deal with and showed negative attitude towards the doctor, However patients should be able to be safe from what is being discussed about them, in front of them, while they are under medicine. The psychological damage it can do to patients is unimaginable and can cause trust issue to those who are undergoing such procedures. As a former EMT, I understand how easy it is to let out negative feed backs about the patients you just treated. However I also understand how much impact it could result in the patients mental health because I just wanted to "let it out". HIPPA is a great act the protects patients from many aspects but I hope that Texas might consider revising the act by including some sort of verbal protection for the patient.
Gossiping among medical professions should not be acceptable in any state and act such as HIPPA should be extended to protect patients from getting gossiped with names disclosed.
A woman named Ethel Esther notified the doctor saying that she needed a immediate attention because of her pain. The doctor responded that she had to wait for two months like everyone else. She kept arguing that she needed to push forward the surgery and the doctor abruptly said, "Who do you think you are? You have to wait just like everyone else". The hospital ended up pushing the schedule forward but this conflict led Esther to be skeptic about the surgeon and decided to record a audio tape during the surgery by putting a small USB recorder in her hair. She later finds the recording and what she hears is bunch of negative remarks of her and her body. She notified a complaint to the hospital but the hospital responded saying that they have decided not to take any further actions on the remarks nor the doctors. Here is the following statement the surgeons exchanged.
"She's a handful. She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn't book for case in two weeks"
"She said, 'I'm going to call a lawyer and file a complaint"
"That doesn't seem like the thing to say to the person who's going to do your surgery"
"Did you see her belly button?"
"I can touch her" (DQ)
I'm arguing over this article because I believe that Texas should enhance their patient protective law to where gossiping and/or remarks such as the one Esther received by her surgeon should be illegal and have consequences. Now, I understand that she probably was being hard to deal with and showed negative attitude towards the doctor, However patients should be able to be safe from what is being discussed about them, in front of them, while they are under medicine. The psychological damage it can do to patients is unimaginable and can cause trust issue to those who are undergoing such procedures. As a former EMT, I understand how easy it is to let out negative feed backs about the patients you just treated. However I also understand how much impact it could result in the patients mental health because I just wanted to "let it out". HIPPA is a great act the protects patients from many aspects but I hope that Texas might consider revising the act by including some sort of verbal protection for the patient.
Gossiping among medical professions should not be acceptable in any state and act such as HIPPA should be extended to protect patients from getting gossiped with names disclosed.
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