Teenager refusing medical treatment …show more content…
After six months the child relapses and the physician decides the patient's only chance at life is to have a bone marrow transplant. He explains the complications of the procedure but states if the patient does not have this the patient will only live a year. The parents and the child discuss the options and decide to have the transplant but the patient wants to ask questions concerning what happens if the procedure fails. The patient is told not to think negative thoughts. The parent signs the consent form and the preparation starts. The patient is in more pain now and also becomes scared because they overhear information about other children in the hospital. The patient hears that other children gone to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and never came back. One week after the transplant the patient starts to get sick and cannot breathe. A ventilator is necessary in order to save the patient but that can only be done in the PICU. The patient pleads for them not to send him to the PICU but they do not listen. The patient is sent to the PICU and was put into a comma. The patient could hear what was going on around him but he could not move at all. The patient finally dies in the PICU. (Derish,