Inquiry Question

 

What impact does gun violence have on the residents living in DC?nce have on the residents living in DC?

Description:

For this checkpoint, you will prepare a presentation that shares what you have done and what you have learned from your Political Action Project.

Your presentation can be in any of the following formats:

Powerpoint

Prezi

Your presentation should cover the following topics

Issue (CHECKPOINT ONE, SLIDE ONE)

Inquiry Question (CHECKPOINT ONE, SLIDE ONE)

In 2019, Ms. Love visited the offices of Awesome Plastic Cosmetic & Laser Surgery Center, where she consulted with plastic surgeon, Thomas Awesome, M.D., regarding breast augmentation surgery. According to Ms. Love she informed Dr. Awesome that she wished to have her breast size increased. Specifically, she told him that she wanted to be a size 34C. Ms.Love asserts that Dr. Awesome assured her that the surgery would accomplish this goal.Dr. Awesome disagrees and states that he gave no assurances or guarantees regarding M.s Love’s post-operative breast size, other than to inform her that her "breasts would most likely be between a B and C cup post-operatively. Dr. Awesome explains that he never gives assurances or guarantees regarding breast size to any patient.

During the consultation, Ms. Love decided to undergo the procedure. She was given a six-page informed consent document. However, Ms.Lovey says that no one reviewed the document with her. She did read through the document as she was speaking to her husband on her cellular telephone. Ms. Love then initialed the first five pages of the document and signed the last page. It is undisputed that the document contains a disclaimer stating that Ms. Love acknowledged that "no guarantee has been given by anyone as to the results that may be obtained."

The surgery was scheduled for March 26, 2019. On that day, Ms. Love presented to Awesome’s office and was provided with another document, entitled "Consent to Operation," which again stated that no guarantees had been given regarding the outcome of the surgery. Although Ms. Love signed the document, she also reports that she was under the influence of drugs prescribed by Dr. Awesome and that the drugs made her so drowsy that her husband had to carry her in to the office.

Following the surgery, Ms. Love made follow-up visits to Dr. Awesome’s office. During one of those visits, she was give a piece of paper on which was written the size and style of bra that the doctor wanted Ms. Love to purchase. A review of the paper reveals that it had Dr. Awesome’s office address and telephone number type-set at the top. The paper had the following in hand-writing: "34C Cup Long Line Style 1805."

Ms. Love contends that following surgery and after-care, her breast size is less than a 34B. The surgery involved no complications, Ms. Love has healed well and has no medical symptoms or complaints. She filed suit against Dr. Awesome alleging claims for breach of oral contract.

Consider the case described above. Here is some more information: Remember how Dr. Awesome prescribed her drugs that made her unable to walk, such that her husband had to carry her? When Ms. Love read through her own medical record she found a notation by one of the nurses (who just happened to be Ms. Love's neighbor). That notation said, " Patient appears to be intoxicated; I have seen this behavior before and she is an alcoholic". Ms. Love is very upset by this statement. She tells you that she never drinks and that her altered state was due to the prescribed medication. Could Ms. Love sue the nurse for defamation? Are there any other intentional torts that could be alleged by Ms. Love based on the nurse's statement? What would she need to prove to succeed in such claims?

Grade 9 english:

1. Think back to Charlotte Edmund's article, "7 skills all young people need to survive the future of the workplace" from the first activity in this lesson. Choose the skill you believe to be the most important to your future
2. Write a few paragraphs to explain why you feel this way. If you think there's a skill the author didn't mention that's more crucial to your future, explain what it is and why you believe so. Give your strongest writing. Plan your ideas before you start writing, then use paragraphs to organize your piece. After you have a first draft, revise it, looking at paragraph unity, sentences, spelling, and capital letters.

Article:

7 skills all young people need to survive the future of the workplace

Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group, argues that today's
school children are facing a "global achievement gap," which is the gap between what even
the best schools are teaching and the skills young people need to learn.
This has been exacerbated by two colliding trends: firstly, the global shift from an industrial
economy to a knowledge economy, and secondly, the way in which today's school children —
brought up with the internet — are motivated to learn.
In his book "The Global Achievement Gap," Wagner identifies seven core competencies every
child needs in order to survive in the coming world of work.
1. Critical thinking and problem-solving
Companies need to be able to continuously improve products, processes and services in order
to compete. And to do this they need workers to have critical thinking skills and to be able to
ask the right questions to get to the bottom of a problem.
2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
Given the interconnected nature of the business world, leadership skills and the ability to
influence and work together as a team has become increasingly important. And the key to
becoming an effective leader? It's twofold, says Wagner, involving "creative problem-solving
and a clear ethical framework".
3. Agility and adaptability
The ability to adapt and pick up new skills quickly is vital for success: workers must be able to
use a range of tools to solve a problem. This is also known as "learnability", a sought-after
skills among job candidates.
4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism
There is no harm in trying: often people and businesses suffer from a tendency to be riskaverse. It is better to try 10 things and succeed in eight than it is to try five and succeed in all
of them.
5. Effective oral and written communication
Recruits' fuzzy thinking and inability to articulate their thoughts were common complaints that
Wagner came across from business leaders when researching his book. This isn't so much
about young people's ability to use grammar and punctuation correctly, or to spell, but how to
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communicate clearly verbally, in writing or while presenting. "If you have great ideas but you
can't communicate them, then you're lost," Wagner says.
6. Accessing and analyzing information
Many employees have to deal with an immense amount of information on a daily basis: the
ability to sift through it and pull out what is relevant is a challenge. Particularly given how
rapidly the information can change.
7. Curiosity and imagination
Curiosity and imagination are what drive innovation and are key to problem solving. "We're all
born curious, creative and imaginative," says Wagner. "The average four-year-old asks a
hundred questions a day. But by the time that child is 10, he or she is much more likely to be
concerned with getting the right answers for school than with asking good questions.
"What we as teachers and parents need do to keep alive the curiosity and imagination that, to
a greater or lesser extent, is innate in every child."

CASE STUDY:

Jolinda Hobble had a history of her left knee slipping out of joint since 1998.  She went to see Dr.  Ralph J. Verygood, an orthopedic surgeon who recommended corrective surgery after Jolinda had  a major dislocation of the left kneecap in July of 2000.  As a result of this surgery, Jolinda suffers from  palsy of her left foot, a condition evidenced by numbness in her big toe and three adjoining toes, the numbness extending about half way up her foot on both the top and the bottom.  Jolinda was advised that she might still experience postsurgical knee problems, including inability to walk altogether.  She also says that she was not specifically warned about possible postsurgical numbness to either her left leg or foot. Dr.Verygood says that he did indeed warn Jolinda about this possibility.

The surgery was performed July 31, 2000.  Jolinda was placed under general anesthetic and remained unconscious throughout the operation.  Dr. Verygood performed a surgical procedure which has the effect of realigning the entire mechanism controlling the kneecap in order to correct the knee dislocation.  During the operation a pneumatic tourniquet was applied to Jolinda's leg to help the operation procedure by cutting off the blood supply to the leg to create a dry (bloodless) surgical field.  Following surgery Jolinda's leg was wrapped by Nurse Vicky with a padded dressing consisting of expandable bandage extending from the toes to the top of her leg.  Nurse Vicky is an employee of the hospital. 

Dr. Verygood was scheduled to take a few days vacation after the operation, but he nevertheless checked on Jolinda in the recovery room within one hour of the surgery. He also wrote detailed orders to be followed during his absence.

Jolinda says that she first awakened around dinner time on the day surgery was performed, but that she did not regain full consciousness until the following morning.  At that time she became aware of a throbbing pain in her left leg which was concentrated on the knee and foot. Jolinda first complained about the pain to the hospital nurse, Nicky the morning after surgery. Nothing was done about the pain, however, until she was checked by Dr. Greatman, Dr. Verygood's partner, on the second postoperative day.  Following Dr. Greatman's visit, Jolinda's bandages were cut off in the foot area giving her some relief and after which she experienced a tingling sensation throughout the whole foot.

Jolinda received follow up care from Dr. Verygood after  surgery for about one year and during this time period Jolinda's complaints of pain and numbness in her left foot continued.

1. Here is some more information to consider:  You end up hiring for your expert, Dr. Richard Cutgood, a board certified orthopedic surgeon, who had performed literally thousands of knee surgeries in his medical career.  Dr. Cutgood is of the opinion that the risk of the type of injuries Jolida has following this type of surgery was statistically nonexistent.

   Dr. Cutgood  concluded that the most probable cause of plaintiff's injury was external pressure either from the tourniquet used during surgery or from the application of tight bandages after the operation.  He considered the probability of nerve damage during the actual surgical procedure to be small because the surgical knife "isn't long enough to reach over and cut that nerve."   Regarding the tourniquet, from his experience tourniquet pressure ordinarily does not result damage to the nerves unless "it is incorrectly applied or it is applied over a bony prominence or the tourniquet itself is defective."

   Dr. Cutgood stated that while nothing in the record indicated that defendant did anything wrong during the surgery, he was of the opinion defendant was "below the usual and customary standard of care" as such result "does not generally occur without some untoward action of the surgeon."

   Does the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitor apply to this case?  What does this legal term mean?  What are the conditions that need to be present for this doctrine to apply?