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16 Jul 2022, 10:30 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
"Remarkably, TRTL also points to the Texas Advance Directives Act as "the exclusive means by which any hospital or physician can attempt to remove life support over a patient or surrogate’s objection. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 2:16 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis turned to the wrong surrogate to make end-of-life decisions for one of its incapacitated patients.Patient Mark Hatcher’s brother Daryl Hatcher was listed as his next of kin and point of contact. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 5:26 am
Finally, note that the hospital's second point undercuts its first point. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 11:08 am by David Benenfeld
Nearly all of us suffer from pain or have been injured at some point in our lives. [read post]
24 May 2013, 12:42 pm
I will go out on a limb here and assume some of them have filed a health insurance claim at one point in their life, and then took the time to review the EOB. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 2:25 am
Fire detection is normally carried out by automatic alarm or by the staff that operates the call points. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 7:41 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
In 2005, when Baylor Hospital was widely criticized (in Slate, the New York Times, and elsewhere) for unilaterally removing life support from Tirhas Habtegiris, the hospital issued a thorough statement explaining its reasons and process. [read post]
3 Dec 2023, 4:13 am by rickgeorges
It is hard to believe that life can bring such low points, and then follow with such ecstatic happiness as I am experiencing with Diane these days. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 2:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
“Up to this point, patients completed the advance care directive on paper and submitted it to their physician to be filed away. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 7:11 pm
Garry has previously written on the Samuel Golubchuk case, now pending in Manitoba, in which two Orthodox Jewish children have requested that a Winnipeg Court prevent a hospital from removing life support and thus ending their father's life.After granting a temporary injunction on December 11, 2007, Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench ruled last week that the hospital treating Mr. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 9:30 am by Mark S. Humphreys
This is an older case and presents a point of view that this writer has not seen in later cases. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 9:58 am
A group of researchers at the Hebrew Senior Life Institute found that 75 percent of these hospitalizations may be avoidable, because dementia patients can be treated with equal effectiveness in the nursing home. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 6:51 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Clinicians at Summa Akron City Hospital told Eugenia that her brother was terminally ill and that his life support would cease at 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 13 unless she won a court order or put her brother in another medical facility. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 6:37 am by David Bernstein
  But, as many others have noted, the line some people draw between life expectancies and quality of medical care, especially hospital care, is less than linear. [read post]