Who would you trust with your life? In the case of the Cruzan vs Missouri Department of Health the question comes into play, do parents have the ability to choose between life and death circumstances for their child? In Missouri on Jan. 11, 1983, as Nancy Beth drove home from her job at a cheese factory in Carthage, Mo. On that day she was in a really bad automobile accident. She had been in what doctors described as an beyond repair vegetative state. Her car tipped over and she had got ejected from the car, she was found in the ditch by paramedics and they tried to save her heart for fifteen minutes. Luckily people got there in time, but was it really in time to save her life. She was found face down in a ditch, and paramedics restarted her heart. But because she had stopped breathing for about 15 minutes, she suffered severe brain damage. The car accident was so bad it left her in a vegetative state and Missouri state hospital claimed she was brain dead. She was kept alive by machines, a feeding tube, and a respirator. The …show more content…
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There are many ethical paradigms through which humans find guidance and justification for their own actions. In the case of contractarianism, citizens of a state are entitled to human rights, considered to be unalienable, and legal rights, which are both protected by the state. As Spinello says, “The problem with most rights-based theories is that they do not provide adequate criteria for resolving practical disputes when rights are in conflict” (14). One case that supports Spinello is the case of Marlise Munoz, a brain-dead pregnant thirty-three year old, who was wrongly kept on life support for nearly two months at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Misinterpretation of the Texas Advance Directives Act by John Peter Smith Hospital led to the violation of the contractarian paradigm. Although the hospital was following the directive in order to maintain legal immunity for its hospital staff, the rights of the family were violated along with the medical fundamental principle to “first, do no harm.”
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...t’s family should be able decide for the patient whether or not prolonging their life is moral.
“I agree with Ms. Krejci that the entire file should have been disclosed with the publics record request, but that does not make it discoverable.” Feeney said. “I understand her frustration that she wasn 't given the same information that another defense attorney was. When I discovered what had happened, which was in august, I immediately requested the entire file from the Phoenix Police Department so that I could disclose it to the defense council. I didn’t do that because I believed that the information was discoverable or relevant. I did it as a professional courtesy. So that we were on the same field, and so that she felt that she had everything tha...
2. The juror said she opposes assisted suicide “because a doctors job is to save peoples lives, not end them.”
I was unable to experience an ethical dilemma at my clinical site; however, I have come across a few dilemmas in recent news. The ethical dilemma I have chosen to discuss took place in California. A two-year-old boy had a severe asthma attack that resulted in him becoming brain dead after having a heart attack. Although three doctors from two different hospitals declared the boy brain dead, the family asked the court to have their son remain on a ventilator, and then took off to Guatemala to receive treatment they felt their son was not receiving in California. There, a neurologist declared that the boy was not brain dead, so the family returned to California to a new hospital. After days there the court order they asked for was denied. The boy was taken off the ventilator and passed away (Miller, 2016).
... differently depending on what their personal biases and prejudices are. This shows that just because the jury could not successfully sentence her to the death penalty, it does not mean that she in undeserving.
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The ethical issues in this case are who’s responsible for making the health care decisions for Mr. Woods a patient that would never regain consciousness and will die in about 2 to 10 years while on the ventilator after having a heart attack. It seems as if Mr. Woods never completed a living will, so the Kentucky Supreme Court appointed a guardian. According to the book, this is allowed by the Living Will Directive Act which allows a judicially appointed guardian or surrogate to remove life support. To my understanding, the hospital ethics committee recommended that Mr. Woods be removed for life support, and the guardian asked for approval. Ethics committee should serve as a legal guardian when there is no guardian appointed, and the family
On January 27, 1964, the court released her upon recommendation of two doctors appointed by the probate court to examine her. She filed law suits for false imprisonment, assault and battery and malpractice against Wolodzko, Anthony Smyk and Ardmore Acres. The court dismissed case on Smyk and Ardmore (115, 497, & 924, 1969) and (Swainson, n.d.).
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not only be the doctors, and or parents’ choice of their children’s death. If they feel that their