Patient has stroke and becomes vegetative

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1. The patient has a stroke and becomes vegetative. The patient's living will states that in such a condition, life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn.

2. The treating physician, adhering to the principle of beneficence, recommends honoring the living will.

3. The next of kin, as the patient's proxy, refuses to honor the living will. This creates an ethical/legal conflict.

4. The conflict lies between the patient's autonomy (expressed in the living will), the physician's duty of beneficence (to act in the patient's best interest), and the proxy's legal authority. In such cases, it may be necessary to seek legal counsel or the intervention of an ethics committee to resolve the conflict in a way that respects the patient's autonomy, the principle of beneficence, and the legal rights of the proxy.

Reference no: EM133708704

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