Obligatory treatment

Using the scenario below discuss if the patient in the scenario was on dialysis, is there an ethical distinction between withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition and withdrawing dialysis?

To Withdraw or Not To Withdraw  Case: Beauchamp and Childress (2019) describe the case of a comatose elderly man with major medical problems and little chance of recovery. Artificial nutrition and hydration and intravenous antibiotics maintain his life. His family agreed to a “do not resuscitate” order. Disagreement arose among nursing and medical personnel about […]

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