PHI 413V Week 3 assignment Case study

As a staunch Christian, it is always imperative and essential to try and strike a balance between physical life and spiritual life. It is a norm for many Christians to mix acts of faith and believe in God with health issues. This has proven to have profound consequences on their daily lives and quality of living. Although it is a challenging undertaking for one to say that the truth of one’s faith is when faced with life uncertainties especially those to deal with health (Koopsen, 2010). The ethical question here arises about which way to take when making decisions pertaining to one’s health. Also, coming to terms with healthcare providers from a religious angle on the side to take in regards to the health of my household as a Christian is one of the most trivial decisions one can ever make (Fung, 2018). In this research, I will focus on Mike and Joanne a couple faced with a critical dilemma decision item regarding the health of their son James who is affected by a life-threatening illness. James, their son is suffering from kidney failure problem and therefore needs dialysis on a frequent basis and an eventual transplant due to the deteriorated critical stage of his condition. James condition has deteriorated to an acute level due to his parent's indecisions of withholding dialysis care and choosing faith over hospital care. Mike and Joanne are faced with the biggest ethical dilemma of balancing between the law of autonomy that prescribes that physicians not only have the obligations to let the patients or their parents and guardians enforce decisions about their physical health and also prescribe the condition under which those decisions would be enacted as well as the principle of beneficence (Synder, 2012). This tenet of beneficence obliges that physician ought to at all times help their patients preserve life by doing all within their power and scope. Thus according to these case study, there is a clear conflict between Mike ....................................CONTINUED...........................