Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital
- ISBN-10
- 0195044282
- ISBN-13
- 9780195044287
- Series
- Drawing the Line
- Category
- Decision making
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Author
- Samuel Gorovitz
Description
Alarms sound at Boston's Beth Israel hospital as an older woman suffers a heart attack - a woman with pervasive, end-stage cancer. She has been in a coma for days, and there is no chance that she will emerge from it - much less live for very long. Still, the medical team flies into action, making heroic efforts to save her from cardiac arrest because the family refuses to sign a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order. Is the struggle to extend this comatose, terminal patient's life a waste of effort for a hard-pressed hospital staff? Should the family have final say in this futile battle to extend her life?
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