“Please keep mom alive one more day” - Clashing directives of a dying patient and her surrogate Journal Article
| Authors: | Latcha, S.; Lineberry, C.; Lendvai, N.; Tran, C. A.; Matsoukas, K.; Scharf, A. E.; Voigt, L. P. |
| Article Title: | “Please keep mom alive one more day” - Clashing directives of a dying patient and her surrogate |
| Abstract: | All medical care providers are legally and ethically bound to respect their patients' wishes. However, as patients lose decision-making capacity and approach end of life, their families or surrogates, who are confronted with grief, fear, self-doubt, and/or uncertainty, may ask physicians to provide treatment that contradicts the patients' previously stated wishes. Our work discusses the legal and ethical issues surrounding such requests and provides guidance for clinicians to ethically and compassionately respond—without compromising their professional and moral obligations to their patients. © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| Keywords: | multiple myeloma; hemodialysis; ethics; end-stage renal disease; moral distress; surrogate decision maker |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| ISSN: | 0885-3924 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
| Date Published: | 2020-05-01 |
| Start Page: | 1147 |
| End Page: | 1152 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.01.014 |
| PUBMED: | 32014529 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC7531567 |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Article -- Export Date: 1 May 2020 -- Source: Scopus |
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