Items Tagged ‘life and death’

October 8, 2009

Life and death: Hospital ethics panels help families decide

By Kelley Luckstein

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 […]

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