New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Now Online
Volume 8 Issue 4 of the American Journal of Bioethics is now online. This month's issue includes target articles on whether ethics education effects nurses and social workers ethical sensibilities, pragmatism in clinical research, and ethical issues in rural health care
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Should a doctor grant the wish of a terminal cancer patient to undergo TPN even if it will cost her life?
Colleen's cancer is out of control. "There is nothing more we can do," she was gently told. She wants her doctor to start Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) by intravenous route so she can try one more round of the research protocol of medication and make it to her son's graduation. Her son is five and a kindergarten. Her doctor agrees the TPN will offer her nutritional support and energy, but the side effects of the treatment are unduly burdensome and could cost her life. Should the treatment be started because she wants it though the doctor disagrees?
She we respect here the Autonomy of Colleen?
- by Sydney on Aug 2, 2008 at 3:50 AM | link