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Ethics Committees at Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Patricia A. Marshall ,
Jay Hartz  and
S.Y. Tan
Patricia A. Marshall
Affiliation:
Assistant Director and an assistant professor of the Medical Humanities Program, Loyola University Chicago Medical Center
Jay Hartz
Affiliation:
A senior partner with Hooper, Landy and Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California
S.Y. Tan
Affiliation:
A professor of Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and Chair of the Ethics Committee at St. Francis Medical Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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Mrs. A. is a 50-year-old woman, originally from Greece, who came to the United States with her family in 1973. A widow, with three grown children, she has been living near two of her sons and their families. For many years, Mrs. A. has suffered from, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, emphysema, and hypertension. On the day of a family picnic, she developed a high fever and vomiting. She was taken by her oldest son, Thomas, to the emergency department, where evidence was discovered of a severe infection of her kidneys that had spread to her blood.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 135 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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