Reference no: EM13928927
Case Study: Physician Aid in Dying?Link to case: https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html
Questions:
1) A recently divorced fifty-five-year-old man with severe rheumatoid arthritis comes in for a routine visit complaining of insomnia. He requests a specific barbiturate, Seconal, as a sleep aid, asking for a month's supply. On further questioning, he states that he wakes up every morning at four, tired but unable to go back to sleep. He admits that he rarely leaves his house during the day, stating that he has no interest in the activities he used to find enjoyable.
What is an appropriate course of action?
2) A middle-aged woman diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia has refused chemotherapy for her condition. She is educated, articulate and quite aware that she will certainly die without treatment. She is upset by her diagnosis, but is not depressed. Her close family wishes she would accept treatment because they do not want her to die, but even so, they honor her refusal. She understands that her death will likely be painful and may be prolonged and requests a supply of barbiturates that she might use to take her life when the appropriate time comes.
What is an appropriate course of action?
MORE QUESTIONS:
1) Background: Discuss the origin, what is PAD, euthanasia (along with withholding treatment, pain meds to hasten death, and palliative sedation).
2) Ethical? Yes: Cover PAD and the reasons why it may be considered ethically permissible.
3) Ethical? No: Cover the reasons why it shouldn't be ethical.
4) Legal?: Give info on what states it's legal in and some background on Dr. Jack Kevorkian who most people will know the name of and how what he did most of the time was euthanasia since the patient couldn't take the meds themselves.
5) What should a doctor do if a patient ask about PAD? Cover the steps they need to follow, including if they don't want to do it to pass it on.
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