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How Does Healthcare Globalisation Affect Critically Ill Children ?
By Anya Vaghani, Year 12 North London Collegiate
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espite the increasing knowledge concerning healthcare and medicine, care for critically ill children can be extremely
complex for all parties involved in the upbringing of the child and their recovery, namely the family and the relevant medics or healthcare professionals. The increasing developments of parents interjection and assertion of making decisions for their children can present challenges to the treatment of the child, and especially, the law. The challenge of globalisation, which is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies and governments worldwide, is becoming evident in the law surrounding children’s medical treatment. One of which being the Internet, which many parents rely on for information as a knowledge base, which can be unreliable and the accuracy of the data can be imprecise. The establishment of social media and the emotional effect it can have on people polarises disputes and provides misinformation. In English and American Law, it states that in a decision affecting a child, the best interests of the child are a primary consideration, and the welfare of the children is the paramount consideration in any decision. In English law, when lawfully making decisions, neither the parents nor the medical supervisors can lawfully make decisions for
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