An African American male patient, age forty-two, was admitted to a skilled nursing unit after surgery for head and neck ...

Goals of care may be in conflict. Assistance requested in complex case of anoxic brain injury patient with unreliable DPOA ...

Shortly after she retired, Grace, who has never married, sold her home and moved into Happy Valley Nursing Home where ...

“My body is all worn out. I’m worn out. Don’t want to do this anymore, Doc. Just stop that little ...

George is a twenty-three-year-old young man with Down's syndrome, who lived independently in a group home. Unfortunately, an accident resulted ...

Who decides if the medical team thinks care is non-beneficial and the family disagrees? ...

A 79-year-old white female with advanced ovarian cancer, severe back and abdominal pain, COPD, depression and anxiety disorder, and asthma ...

This article presents the case of an HIV-positive patient who presented the treating physician, a psychiatrist, with an ethical dilemma ...

T.J. is a seven-year-old boy who was diagnosed with asthma at three years of age. T.J. and his parents have ...