Debate # 4

I was absent for Debate number four so I figured I would Blog about it and discuss my feelings PRO and CON sides. The topic was: The employment-at-will concept is still appropriate in today’s society. From my understanding the The at will concept means that an employers has the right to fire someone at any given moment for any reason. The Con side may fight that a manager firing someone for any other reason other than misconduct may result it exposure to claims for the organization. I kind of agree with the concept in some ways and some ways I dont but like the law states their are exceptions and limitations to the concept. The reasonable exceptions would be race, sex, and ethnicity or in retaliation for employee conduct that is protected. I just think that people shouldnt be able to be fired for no reason what so ever! If their is a reasonable reason for them to be fired and it can be explained. I have had a situation like this happen to me on one of the jobs I held as a teenager but it wasnt important enough to me to fight to keep it. Florida is also one of the states in which a reason does not have to be presented for letting someone go. I worked at Sonny's BBQ one time and got fired for "stealing out of the draw" and that was definately something I did not do! I wanted to fight the situation so bad because I knew it wasnt true but being such a young age it was easy for me to find another job but in an instance were it was a really important job and I thought they were firing me for rumors or dislike I would definately have something to say about it or present my opinion to someone of hier authority.
The last class I attended was about patient consent, abuse, and neglect. This subject is very simple to me because it goes between the line of right and wrong. Being a physician you should know that asking for consent to do certain things is required and you know when you are doing something wrong to your patient such as abuse or neglect. Unfortunately it happens to much in the world of health care I think people need to stop being so selfish and worry about the needs of their patient. A girl brought up a scenerio on patient consent stating a law that was passed in many states saying that if a woman gave birth by C section to her child then she can never give a natural birth after that and must always give birth through a C section. In my opinion a doctor should be able to give recommendations about doing a C section rather than a natural birth for certain cases but I dont think it should be anyone elses decision on how the baby comes out besides the mother. I dont even understand why there would be a law passed about this knowing all the other laws and ethical statements of a patient having the right to decide what happens to his/her body and the right to refuse. There have been cases where mothers have been arrested and charged for breaking the law on this because they decided to give a home birth naturally! I think this is herendous if a mom wants to give birth the way she wants to give birth it should be her decision and nobody elses.