amkhan
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the physician decides when the patient is dead.
it says here (in kaplan) that if there are no more treatment options and the pt is brain dead, then even if the family insists on treatment then the treatment should stop.
and the next thing they say is that ' if the physician thinks that the treatment is futile but the surrogate insists on continued treatment, then the treatment should continue'.
what is the difference between the two situations..... they have referred to the Wanglie case, in which the pt was in a persistent vegetative state, but the family insisted that the treatment continue , so it did.
please someone explain.
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| JS
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I think that in second situation pt. is not BRAIN DEAD !
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| KEROCHI
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Cases like this depends on the patient's desire when she was still capable of making her own decision.. A living will? or expressed treatment..
look at Terri Schiavo's case from Florida.
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