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Providing Support Against the Patients Wishes adapted from On a Matter of Life or Death, a Patient Is Overruled, New Y

The patient: Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith could not breathe. Bright-red blood, filling up the air spaces in his lungs, was spewing from his mouth whenever he coughed."So what are you waiting for?" I asked the cardiology fellow on the phone, trying to rub the sleep out of my eyes. "Intubate him.""He says h

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Providing Support Against the Patients Wishes adapted from On a Matter of Life or Death, a Patient Is Overruled, New Y

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    1. Providing Support Against the Patient's Wishes (adapted from ”On a Matter of Life or Death, a Patient Is Overruled,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 2004) Case Study Presentation Ethics Consultant Group

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