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The Case of Claire Conroy
Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water? An eighty-four-year-old non-ambulatory nursing home patient was confined to semi-fetal condition with ...
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 – “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 ...
The Case of Grace: Why Are They Doing All This?
Shortly after she retired, Grace, who has never married, sold her home and moved into Happy Valley Nursing Home where ...
Case Study – Good Death or Assisted Suicide?
“My body is all worn out. I’m worn out. Don’t want to do this anymore, Doc. Just stop that little ...
Case Study – What Should We Do? DNR for an Adult with Down Syndrome
George is a twenty-three-year-old young man with Down's syndrome, who lived independently in a group home. Unfortunately, an accident resulted ...
