Current Event for the Week of 2/26
Civil retrial to begin for doctor who allegedly kept 92-year-old woman alive against her wishes.
Madeline Neumann wanted to die peacefully. The 92-year-old woman who had suffered from Alzheimer's and a seizure disorder, created a living will before she moved into the Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center. But when aides at the nursing home found Neumann unresponsive after suffering from a seizure on Oct. 16, 1995, her wishes weren't followed.
Read the article here.
Do you think the doctors should be held responsible? Souldn't the family have given the will to the doctors?
Madeline Neumann wanted to die peacefully. The 92-year-old woman who had suffered from Alzheimer's and a seizure disorder, created a living will before she moved into the Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center. But when aides at the nursing home found Neumann unresponsive after suffering from a seizure on Oct. 16, 1995, her wishes weren't followed.
Read the article here.
Do you think the doctors should be held responsible? Souldn't the family have given the will to the doctors?
posted by phs_sociology at 4:17 PM
5 Comments:
i think that the doctors should be held accountable for what happened to the lady. it was in her will that she wanted to die when it was her time to die and that there should be no machines helping her to keep living. the doctors should take fault and give the grandaughters their demands.
To a degree i do not think the doctors are fully responsible, if the will is not given to the the doctor, the doctor does not know that the patient wishes to die when time has arrived and will do their job to save their patient. If after she was taken to the medics the will was shown and they still proceeded with the machines, they should be accountable.. but if they took the tubes out of her and allowed her die peacefully as soon as the will was at hand, it is not their fault.
i dont not think it is the doc's fault since it says in the article that there was no document on the woman that told the people to not save her if she died. So when they found her they were just trying to save her life.
I think that if the doctor's were informed of the woman's living will, then they should be responsible for being in accordance with it. However, if the doctor's weren't informed, it should've been both the administration's responibility to check if a living will had been drafted, and the family's responisbilty to give the administration a copy of it to pass on to the doctors.
I think that if the doctor's were informed of the woman's living will, then they should be responsible for being in accordance with it. However, if the doctor's weren't informed, it should've been both the administration's responibility to check if a living will had been drafted, and the family's responisbilty to give the administration a copy of it to pass on to the doctors.
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