October 8, 2009
Life and death: Hospital ethics panels help families decide
An infant is born with no functioning brain. A teen is ravaged in a car wreck. A 90-year-old with dementia and pneumonia lies unconscious in intensive care… Every day, in a hospital somewhere in the USA, a group of strangers — the hospital ethics committee — is called in to help people make the […]
Tags: Ethics, life and death