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Advocating for the Dying - The View of Family and Friends

Advocating for the Dying – The View of Family and Friends

Advocating for the Dying - The View of Family and Friends Imagine you are being forced to play a game ...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Different Approach

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Different Approach

Physician Assisted Suicide - A Different Approach More requests for physician-assisted suicide are not due to present suffering. Steps must ...
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The Case of Melinda and Matt: Ethical Indicators of Futility in Critically Ill New Mother

The Case of Melinda and Matt: Ethical Indicators of Futility in Critically Ill New Mother

Who is responsible for healthcare decisions of this 31-year-old African American woman? Should her advance directive be honored? ...
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The Case of Jennie M: To Tube Feed or Not

The Case of Jennie M: To Tube Feed or Not

Jennie has an advance directive which does not address artificial nutrition. Who makes this decision now that Jennie can't speak ...
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The Case of Jesse, Unrepresented and Homeless

The Case of Jesse, Unrepresented and Homeless

A 60-year-old homeless man, “Jesse,” is found confused and in distress by a passerby who calls 911. Paramedics bring the ...
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The Case of Joe

The Case of Joe

"Joe" is a 62-year-old building contractor who has been in an ICU for the past 10 weeks. He had gone ...
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The Case of Sepsis in a Newborn

The Case of Sepsis in a Newborn

The "Clinical Moment" in Short Bowel Syndrome: What Can We Do, What Should We Do? ...
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The Case of Pat: Unprepared to Talk About Dying

The Case of Pat: Unprepared to Talk About Dying

Pat B. had never talked with her father about dying. Even when he was older and had remarried after her ...
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The Case of Nancy Cruzan

The Case of Nancy Cruzan

A thirty-year-old accident victim suffered lack of oxygen to her brain for six to twenty minutes. She was in a ...
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