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The Case of Jimmy: Out of Hospital DNRs for School-Aged Children
Jimmy is twelve years old, bright, interacts well with teachers and other students, and really likes to go to school ...
The Case of Immigrant Populations: Cultural Competence in Health Care
Delivering health care to non-English speaking immigrant populations requires knowledge and appreciation of the patient's culture. Acquiring the skills to ...
The Case of Herman: Rejecting Doctors Orders
Herman, a fifty-five-year-old farmer, has come into the office of Dr. X complaining of an increase in the symptoms of ...
The Case of a 20-Month-Old Boy
A 20-month-old Puerto Rican boy was admitted to the inpatient unit for failure to thrive associated with a decrease in ...
Case Study – Tatiana Tarasoff: A Duty to Warn
When a therapist predicts that his patient is a danger to another person, does he have a duty to warn ...
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 – I Know What You’re Thinking
An African American male patient, age forty-two, was admitted to a skilled nursing unit after surgery for head and neck ...
Confidentiality in the Age of AIDS: A Case Study in Clinical Ethics
This article presents the case of an HIV-positive patient who presented the treating physician, a psychiatrist, with an ethical dilemma ...