Nursing Case Study Ethical Dilemmas

The following case study is a moral dilemma in which a doctor must chose a course of action with respect to patient’s case. In this case, the doctor must consider the morality, criminality, and ethical implications of killing, abortion, farmed organs, and allowing a patient suffer when there is a cure. Then and only then, can the doctor to determine what actions are morally permissible and allow to make an informed and proper decision as to what course of action he should take.
The case study reveals that the doctor’s patient is on dialysis, and is suffering from the severe side effects of his treatment, is growing desperate, inpatient, and frustrated by the life-restrictions derived from his illness. The patient cannot work regularly because of his dialysis treatment schedule. His mental and physical state has progressively deteriorated to the point that the patient has threatened to commit suicide if he has to remain indefinitely on dialysis.
In an effort to help her husband, the patient’s wife suggests to the doctor a possible solution that would help her husband’s predicament. The spouse states that she is
A fetus five and a half to six months of age could be declared viable. The current standard for doctor-determined-fetus-viability with respect to lawful abortion was established by the Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992). According to Anher et.al, who conducted a study on the ethical implications of aggressive obstetric management, a fetus 24 weeks of age should be “regarded as viable” because their survival rate exceeds 50% (Ahner, 2001, p. 124). Furthermore, killing a fetus, especially, when it was created, carried, and then killed for the sole purpose of harvesting its organs violates the “do-no-harm” clause of the doctors Hippocratic