Category / Case Studies / Consent/Assent / Medical Ethics
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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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Case Study – Everything Be Done
The patient, Mrs. Czarniwicz, is a 67-year-old female diagnosed with non-resectable colon cancer six months ago. She was recently admitted for sepsis.
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Case Study – Nonadherence to Care?
Patient is a 30-year-old female, presenting with multiple co-morbidities including HIV, COPD and cardiac complications. After several weeks in the ICU, the patient’s condition continued to not improve.
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Case Study – Vaccination and Autism
Patient is a 6-year-old female being seen at her family physician. The patient is up-to-date with all of her vaccines, but the patient’s mother is now expressing concerns.
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The Case of Non-Beneficial Care
80-year male with multiple medical problems is nonresponsive to medical teams.
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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 – 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…
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Elder Abuse
An estimated 120 million adult Americans (57 percent) are either providing unpaid care to an adult family member or friend or have provided this care in the past.
