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Case Study – Family Opposition to Organ Donation Despite First Person Consent
JD has not regained consciousness and is apt to remain permanently in a vegetative state. A decision is made to ...

Case Study: One Small Cut that Killed
The family wants answers, and so far, all they know is that he came in with one small cut and ...

The Case of Omer: Who Should Talk to the Family and What Should They Say?
How should an adverse event from a surgery be handled? ...

Case Study – My Patient’s Dying
I had never seen it before. I had no experience on which to base my unsettling suspicions. Who is responsible for ...

Case Study – Mr. Jay’s Case
Mr. Jay told his doctor he would prefer that resuscitation not even be attempted. Will paramedics know about Mr. Jay's ...

Case Study – Matter of Quinlan
Evidence in the case included statements the patient made earlier referring to her "distaste for continuance of life by extraordinary ...

Case Study – Managing Pain, A Family Affair
Mrs. W is a sixty-year-old African American woman with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer with metastases to the bone ...

Case Study – It’s Too Much – First My Daughter, and Now This
Fiona has custody of her two orphaned grandchildren and works as a housekeeper in a private home while the children ...

Case Study – “If you prick me, do I not bleed?”
Elizabeth is over 100 years old, with little cognitive decline. Her blood-thinning medication requires monthly blood draws, which are painful ...