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Reason, Emotion, and Implanted Devices
07/13/2016
by John D. Lantos, MD
Pullman and Hodgkinson present a case that, it seems, should have been an easy one. A competent adult makes a simple request to discontinue a medical therapy. Further, it was a therapy that he’d already tried so personal experience informed his preference to discontinue therapy. His request was repeated over time. He was determined to have adequate decisional capacity. So why did both the physicians and the bioethicists consider this to be a difficult case?
There are certain cases that lead to such dilemmas.…
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