The Scheme blog # 2

on monday spetember the 15th,2008. i was reading a magazine artical about a woman who used the health care system to her advantage for personal financial gain. the woman went to the pharmacy to get a birth control perscription filled. the pharmacist filled the perscription wrong. the lady received allegra instead of birth control pills. the woman took the pills every day and became pregnant. after she became pregnant she backed tracked her steps to the her doctor and come to find out the pharmacist had filled the wrong perscription. the woman wanted to hold some one liable, so she sued due to a dispensing error. the dispensing error resulted in her having her life altered. when she took the pharmacist to court the judge made him responsible for the child, and he had to pay child support for the next eighteen years even though the child was not biologically his. the ethical part about this is:
1. She should of had good moral values and returned the medication( birth control pills come pre packaged and allegra does not).
2. the judge was wrong in this case because the pharmacist has to pay childsupport for a child that is not his. and he will have no parential rights for this child.
3. she deserve punitive damage but not to the extent of eighteen years of child support.
personally, i think the woman and the guy she laid with that is the true father of the child took advantage of the system and thought of a get rich quick scheme.

what long term care mean to me

the book long term care, defines long term care(ltc) as care for a long period of time for those persons requiring healthcare, personal care, social and supportive services over a sustained period of time. when i think of ltc i think of nursing homes and elderly but it is ovious that long term health care is not just for the elderly but for youth aswell. if a young person get into a car accident and need to be monitored closely their family members might put them in a nursing home so they can get the best care possible. in other words to me long term care can be for any one not just for the elderly.