Many of you are probably aware of the Terri Schiavo case which was in the news in 2005. Terri was in a persistent vegetative state, according to her doctors. Persistent vegetative state, or PVS, is a condition in which severe brain damage and coma have progressed to the point where the patient is awake, and ...
God created the world in six days. The first five days he created the sky, land and vegetation, the sun, moon and stars, the sea, animals that move along the ground. On the sixth day he created man in his won image. He saw that all this was good and on the seventh day he ...
In September 1993, in a case involving the failure of a nurse to administer a prescribed heparin injection to a patient, causing permanent damage from clots, a New Jersey court awarded the patient $2 million. In 1997, due to failure of the nursing staff to timely notify a surgeon regarding adverse post back surgery complications, ...
A Living Will is a legal document that specifies what you would want done if you are ever in a persistent vegetative state. For instance, would you want to be kept alive indefinitely on a respirator if there was no hope of recovery? Or would you want to be permitted to die with dignity? A ...
The main debate concerns situations in which patients, or in many cases their family members, request treatment at the end of life that many physicians feel to be of no real benefit to the patient. In other words, Steven H. Miles and Felicia Ackerman debate whether or not physicians are required or morally obligated in ...
