Medical Futility
This blog tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life.
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Feb 07, 12 05:26PMApart from the interesting issues raised about provider duties to investigate surrogate representations, the Noval v. Kaiser case is also notable because Kaiser ethicist, Dan Wilson, is named as a se parate...
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Feb 07, 12 04:54PMThis Southern California case (Noval v. Kaiser Fdn. Hospital) sadly reads a lot like an old James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren movie: Critical Care. Hector Noval, the son of a mult imillionaire...
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Feb 04, 12 06:02PMThis sensational news segment covers a few recent futility disputes (Wawrzyniak and Rasouli) that have made it to the Canadian courts: W5: Life or death - who gets to decide? | CTV News
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Feb 04, 12 03:16PMIn my published reviews of litigated futility cases (e.g. here), I have observed, that the only cause of action that is typically successfully brought against healthcare providers for unilaterally wit hholding...
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Feb 02, 12 05:24PMWelcome to the 21st Annual Ethics Symposium Registration Site! Sponsored by the TPMG Department of Medical Ethics (DOME) Kaiser Permanente Northern California ETHICAL CURRENTS THE 21ST...
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Feb 02, 12 05:05PMIn the Jan.-Feb. Hastings Center Report [full text free], Sandra Johnson explains how it is not so much the law that "forces" clinicians to provide futile treatment, as much as "pr ivate...
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Feb 02, 12 05:13AMBrain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be EuthanizedThis is actually very well done satire. HT: NDY (of all places).
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Jan 31, 12 03:48PMNew York and California are, by now, well-known for having "Right-to-Know" laws. I recall that Arizona (like Maryland, Vermont, and others) had introduced at least one bill to do the same thing. nbsp...
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Jan 31, 12 09:01AMI liked this language in Eric Cassell's letter-to-the-editor in the Nov-Dec Hastings Center Report: [T[he contemporary goals of medicine remain disease-oriented, not focused on sick pe rsons...
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Jan 30, 12 05:38PMIn June, I blogged about a French case in which a hospital was fined for providing futile treatment. Basically, providers at the Hospital of Orange continued resuscitation on a seriou sly...
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