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| 15765. CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: AN AIDS PATIENTS' DEMAND FOR FUTILE, LIFE-EXTENDING TREATMENT. This case involves a conflict between the principles of respect for autonomy and justice and the principle of social beneficence. An HMO nurse, charged with caring for a number of AIDS patients, disagrees with one patients' wish to receive life-sustaining and extending treatment. The analysis states the ethical problem, identifies the principal decision-makers, outlines alternative courses of action and their ethical consequences, ranks the alternatives, and considers ways to avoid similar problems in the future. KEYWORDS: medical ethics case studies dying patients autonomy . Written 2002. 7 pages, 1 footnote, 1 bibliographic source. 2,051 words. |
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