Part 1:

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

· Do laws and regulations protect patients or do health professionals protect patients? 

· Thinking about laws and regulations, how would the events that led to the discovery and experimentation with HeLa cells have been different if they occurred today? 

· Research and identify a contemporary case in which laws and regulations failed to protect patients from violations of privacy, compliance, or ethics.

Part 2: a (Respond to post)

Brittani Stroud

3/24/22, 10:47 PM 

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I believe in a perfect world health professionals protect patients, while laws and regulations are put in place to protect patients when accidents occur. However, I also think there are circumstances where both health professionals as well as laws and regulations do not protect patients. The HeLa cell issue is a prime example of past issues, but women's rights with abortion, birth control, etc are more recent examples. Due to there being more rules, regulations and people willing to fight for injustices- I do believe the events of stealing the HeLa cells would potentially still occur, but there would actual consequences for the action. I also believe if the act of stealing the cells was still to occur today the distribution of the cells would be on a much quieter level, to keep from getting caught, sued and probably jailed. In Texas there are laws currently being passed, and previously passed laws that regulate who, what, when , where and how a woman can receive and abortion. A name was not given in the case, but a 12 year old girl was repeatedly raped by her father and ended up becoming pregnant; the girl was able to get an abortion however had she attempted to have the abortion after September 1, 2021 when "SB 8" was passed the girl would have been forced to carry the child to term. In that case that bill would be detrimental to not only the 12 year olds mind and body, but potentially the child she was to bear.The case brings up the ethical side of healthcare and the regulations that govern it.

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The purpose of all laws is to protect citizens and the rights in the United States. I do not believe this fact is not different for the laws and regulations in the healthcare system. These specific laws and regulations are used to protect patient rights, privacy, and abuse of the system. While health care professionals also have a responsibility to protect their patients as well. Providers should always use morals and ethics to determine what is the right treatment for patients. I believe both are a joint effort when dealing with healthcare. If we had the same laws in place during the era of HeLa cells I believe, there would not be a such thing of HeLa cells, the experiment was completely illegal because they never had a consent for the patient. If a physician would perform a procedure of some sort without a patients consent like they did the physician would probably be in jail or not have a license to practice anymore. A case I love to talk about that failed to protect patient which in fact was not that long ago was the Tuskegee experiment, where black men were used as experiments, and left untreated with syphilis cases. Many of the men lost their lives during that time. This was a complete violation of patients' rights and a perfect example of physicians not using morals and ethics.