Respecting autonomy in severely demented patients through advanced medical directives

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Li, Xue Er
• مؤلفون آخرون: Melvin Chen
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73537

This paper discusses the problem that Margo, a severely demented patient, faces when she has pneumonia. Pneumonia is easy to treat with the use of antibiotics, but if left untreated, it is lethal. The doctor has received her advanced medical directive (AMD), where she indicated that she would rej...