Category / Case Studies / Medical Ethics / Right to Refuse
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Case Study – The Avid Outdoorsman and Quality of Life
The patient is a 45-year-old male with chronic cardiac issues. If the current standard continues, the patient is not expected to live past the next five years. It is recommended that the patient undergo a surgical procedure that will add several years to his life expectancy.
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Case Study – The Isolated Long-Term-Care Patient and Scarce Resource Allocation
Patient is an 82-year-old female, who is currently a resident at a long-term care facility. The patient is suffering from severe dementia, COPD, and other conditions, and recently tested positive for COVID-19.
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Case Study –“But I’m Asymptomatic to the Virus!” Quarantine Ethics
Jane is 40-year old physician who is travelling back from providing free medical care oversees. She has been stationed in South America, where a new virus is spreading. Very little is known about the virus but is has been shown to be extremely contagious through the air.
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Case Study –Allowing Patients to Make Bad Decisions
Patient is a 74-year-old male, suffering from COPD and ESRD. Patient requires oxygen and twice weekly dialysis. After a ten-day hospital admission, the attending physician has determined that the patient is medically cleared for discharge and recommends discharge to a SNF.
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Pandemic Ethics Resources
Pandemic Ethics Resources Institutional Resources and GuidanceAccessibility Guidance Including VaccineAdvance Care Planning and Medical Decision MakingKansas and Missouri GuidanceOther State GuidanceOther Ethics ResourcesPandemic Webinar Series and COVID Ethics Updates Pandemic Webinar Series COVID Ethics Updates Institutional Resources and GuidanceEthical Considerations: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement PubMed.gov/NIH… -
Medical Ethics – Confidentiality and Privacy Issues in Healthcare
Confidentiality and privacy issues in healthcare
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Medical Ethics – Narrative Ethics
Narrative ethics help tell the story and provide a framework for ethical decision making.
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Medical Ethics – Difficult Provider-Patient Relationships
Relationships between a healthcare provider and a patient can be difficult.
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Medical Ethics – Ethics and Complementary Medicine
Ethical issues abound in alternative and complementary medicine.
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Medical Ethics – Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities A Threat to Disabled Persons? On the Genetics Approach to Developmental Disabilities This essay by Hans S. Reinders explores the claim that the genetics approach to intellectual disability does not imply a negative evaluation of disabled persons because there is a distinction between the person and…
