Citation

Bania TC, Lee R, Clark M. Acad. Emerg. Med. 2003; 10(1): 65-68.

Affiliation

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10019, USA. toxtod@aol.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12511319

Abstract

Advance directives, health care proxies, and living wills are forms of advance planning that permit patients to make decisions regarding their health care and are used when the patient becomes incapacitated. The ethics of allowing these forms of advance planning are questioned when the patient has attempted suicide. The authors present an ethical analysis of a case of an elder patient who overdosed on sustained-release diltiazem and had a health care proxy who wanted all treatments stopped.

Language: en