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![The Case of John: Refusal to Eat in a Long-Term Care Facility](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Case-of-John-Refusal-to-Eat-in-a-Long-Term-Care-Facility-300x200.jpeg)
The Case of John: Refusal to Eat in a Long-Term Care Facility
John is a strongly independent 92-year-old widower of many years, with no children. Is he done living? ...
![The Case of Melinda and Matt: Ethical Indicators of Futility in Critically Ill New Mother](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pregnant-300x200.jpg)
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? ...
![The Case of Jennie M: To Tube Feed or Not](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Case-of-Jennie-M-To-Tube-Feed-or-Not-300x206.jpeg)
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 ...
![The Case of Jesse, Unrepresented and Homeless](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jessie-e1683920673891-300x267.jpg)
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 ...
![The Case of Joe](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Joe-300x200.jpg)
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 ...
![The Case of Sepsis in a Newborn](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Case-of-Sepsis-in-a-Newborn-300x200.jpeg)
The Case of Sepsis in a Newborn
The "Clinical Moment" in Short Bowel Syndrome: What Can We Do, What Should We Do? ...
![The Case of Pat: Unprepared to Talk About Dying](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Case-of-Pat-Unprepared-to-Talk-About-Dying-300x200.jpeg)
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 ...
![The Case of Nancy Cruzan](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Case-of-Nancy-Cruzan-300x226.jpeg)
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 ...
![After the Heart Attack - Sister Rosemary Flanigan, PhD](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/pulse-1.gif)
After the Heart Attack – Sister Rosemary Flanigan, PhD
In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan ...