Close call in death ruling of potential organ donor.
It seems counterintuitive that the same doctors whose jobs are to help and save their patients’ lives are possibly compromising care in order to take advantage of their organ donor status; therefore speeding up the process of a patient’s death, reaping the reward of organs, and giving one (or many) patient(s) another chance to continue living. Some hospitals hold no strict nor enforced guidelines regarding the steps taken to declare a patient as brain dead, which has allowed said hospitals to bend the rules of ethics. Donor networks are being described as “vultures” by some people whose loved ones hold eligible donor statuses; flocking down when there’s a patient in critical condition to see if the organs will be viable.
Prozac: What’s Race Got to Do With It?
It seems counterintuitive that external factors such as race could be influencing doctors when prescribing medications regarding mental health. Statistics present that a decent number of doctors have prescribed patients’ with Medicare or Medicaid insurance cheaper varieties of antidepressants; while prescribing white patients with private insurance new-generation antidepressants such as Prozac. These prescribing patterns are startling considering that depression isn’t more common in one race than another. There hasn’t been a clear answer as to why such disparities exist, but many have the goal of reforming healthcare standards and eradicating the unfair treatment gap.
Do Multivitamins Really Work?
It seems counterintuitive that taking daily multivitamins may not prevent the diseases they claim to defend against, but instead could be doing more harm than good. While specific supplements are used to target deficiencies and aid in prenatal care, the collection of such a large amount of vitamins and minerals in one gummy may give our bodies more than it needs. There is a lack of regulation in the vitamin industry; there have been cases of mislabeling and inconsistent supplementation doses. Even if a person’s diet is chocked full of sugars and fats, they are still likely to be hitting their daily vitamin quota.
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Counterintuitive Spring 2024 
I’m glad you asked for Feedback, SleepyCat, because, although your drafts have been very high quality for weeks, I have plenty of suggestions. I’ll limit my remarks to your first entry here in the hope that you’ll want to revise the rest yourself for a grade upgrade.
—You’ve clearly got the right idea in mind here, SleepyCat. The fact that some patients might die early to prolong the lives of others is damned counterintuitive.
—But you phrase your sentence as if to hide the clarity of that claim.
—You seem to be contrasting “save lives” against “take advantage of status,” but that’s not a very clear contrast. Once you’ve made it, you have to backfill with explanations about speeding death and reaping rewards and giving life.
—You might streamline that process.
—It seems counterintuitive that doctors, whose job is to save lives, might be tempted to shorten the lives of some patients. Organ donor status creates that conflict. Organs from terminally-ill or critical-care patients might prolong the life of another patient desperate for a heart or kidney, and critics worry that the urgent need might convince doctors to harvest those organs early from their donor patients.
—The best sentences understand their real subject.
—They use the “subject of the claim” as the “subject of the sentence.”
—Here, the subject of the claim is not “the hospital.” It’s “the lack” of brain death guidelines.
—Make the subject of the claim the subject of the sentence:
——Disputes about when to declare brain death gives doctors the leeway to bend their ethics in favor of early declarations that make donor organs available.
—If you have a personal investment in the claims here, you can indicate with one adverb which side of the dispute you favor.
—Loved ones of critical-care patients understandably describe donor networks and the doctors who fulfill donation requests as vultures swooping down to pluck living organs from still viable patients.
—Catch that adverb?
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