Medical Ethics: Current Events (Current Event Summary)
Medical Ethics (Current Event Summary #1)
Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son.
This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor, and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days, a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of intervenous drugs + adrenaline.
The ethical issue is the heartbeat within him was still beating. This has prompted Motl’s parents, who are Orthodox Jews, to refuse the hospital’s request to remove all artificial life support. Under some interpretaions
Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son.
This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor, and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days, a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of intervenous drugs + adrenaline.
The ethical issue is the heartbeat within him was still beating. This has prompted Motl’s parents, who are Orthodox Jews, to refuse the hospital’s request to remove all artificial life support. Under some interpretaions