UCLA Health System President David Feinberg was part of PBS' recent Money and Medicine film. At one point, he seems to accurately describe the law on medical futility in California (and most states):
The family wants everything done. The way the system is set up currently, that spouse, that child, that parent can really demand a full court press, regardless of what the odds are.
Yet, as the PBS program proceeds, we learn that UCLA, through its ethics committee and its "Policy on Withdrawing or Withholding Medically Inappropriate Life Sustaining Treatment," has unilaterally placed a DNAR order on a long-term patient who has no prospect for recovery or meaningful interaction and whose son would not consent to the DNAR order.
0 nhận xét:
Đăng nhận xét