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81. Medical Ethics in the Heat of the Moment | Withdrawing and withholding care, delaying death, over-treatment, and the daughter from California,

Stimulus - Learn Tools to Crush It in Your Medical Career

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Emergency Ethics Consultation

In this case, i think you did right. You have no idea what her quality of life is. I don't think the the myth of the double dock con ant is even necessary here. It's an emergency. In an emergency, we err on the side of life. We needed to buy time until we could get a little deeper into advance directivesyou had emphasized in your letter that she was happy and contented. Can we judge that with our cognitively intact selves? And is that a joyful life? There are exit ramps for people afterwards. If this doesn't go the way we want it to, there are exit rampsfor people afterwards. Sometimes we can temporize and buy time

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