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Category / Case Studies / End of Life Ethics

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  • Case Study – Casey’s Last Inning

    How do healthcare providers clearly state what they believe is the right and good and wise action that ought to be taken for the patient?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Barney Says No

    With no family, Barney, her longtime friend, has been her unofficial substitute decision maker. Should her treatment plan be moved to comfort care only? Who gets to decide?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Baby K

    Do physicians have an obligation to treat in a situation in which they believe treatment is utterly pointless?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Angela C – Maternal Fetal Issues

    Treatment wishes – is the response different because of pregnancy?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Alice’s Frail Mother

    Do DNR orders matter?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Abortion Rights and/or Wrongs

    Kate, an emancipated 17-year-old woman, is unmarried and 8 weeks pregnant. She wants to terminate the pregnancy. The hospital where she has always received medical care is part of a faith-based health care system that rejects elective abortion.

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – A Sister for Joshua

    Is this new child a vehicle to provide a bone marrow transplant for their potential sibling who has Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia? Under what conditions might this case be the subject of an ethics consult?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – A Family Divided

    A forty-five-year-old man with a three-year history of cardiovascular disease has entered the hospital with a stroke that has paralyzed his right side and caused him to aspirate food of any consistency. His mental status is clouded and there is disagreement as to whether he has decisional capacity.

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – Walking The Tightrope

    Is this 85-year-old patient “a complainer” or is she in pain?

    October 29, 2021
  • Case Study – The Role of Literacy in Making Wishes Known

    Where is Will Rogers when we need him most?
    Toward a traditional morality in biomedical ethics.

    October 28, 2021
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