Incidences of Medical Abuse and Medical Neglect Continue to Increase

Incidences of Medical Abuse and Medical Neglect Continue to Increase
John
Incidences of medical abuse and medical neglect continue to increase. Child protective services (CPS) are responsible for dealing with such cases when they come to their attention. The problem has been many children continue to suffer from abuse and neglect without coming to the attention of CPS. National trends on child abuse and neglect depend largely on data from CPS. However, while some incidences are never reported to CPS, information is available on blogs that can give pointers. Instances of bloggers writing misleading articles regarding their children so they can medially abuse and neglect their children should be of concern to physicians. Healthcare professionals should query the Internet to identify bloggers who have fabricated stories regarding the illness of their children (Brown et al., 2014). The physicians should analyze the blogs' information based on available medical data. This would enable them to make proper recommendations to CPS regarding the action against such parents.
Providers who consider parents unreasonable in accepting their recommendations may be biased in accessing instances of medical abuse and medical neglect among children. Parents, for instance, may prefer to undertake complementary therapy for life-threatening illnesses like cancer. This may lead to delayed surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, allowing cancer to grow and spread to other body parts (Michalczyk et al., 2021). Healthcare providers are concerned when treatment delays since this may endanger a patient's life. As a result, providers want to ensure that treatment starts as soon as possible to increase the chances of patients surviving especially in life-threatening conditions. A physician who wants to undertake chemotherapy may be biased to think that such parents are neglecting their children, while in the real sense, they are seeking alternative and complementary treatment options. Such a physician will be biased to report that parents medically neglecting their children in such circumstances. However, this will not be the case, given that parents have the right to seek alternative forms of treatment, even where physicians do not agree with such decisions.
I believe hospitals should consult the Bioethics Committee where they suspect instances of medical child abuse. This is because parents may not, in the real sense, neglect their children, as demonstrated by those who seek alternative and complementary medication. The Bioethics Committee will investigate further and establish if the parents' actions constitute medical child abuse and neglect. At the same time, the Committee will establish the parents' motives and make informed decisions regarding what physicians should do. Consequently, hospitals will avoid lawsuits, as is the case with Justina.
Signoring
The factors in TD (the Mother) should be considered when determining the child's best interest. TD, the Mother, appeals to the trial court's termination. The trial court indicated that TD knowingly allowed the children to be in conditions that put their lives in danger. In 2014, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (Department) got information indicating that the Mot...