NCBC President Joseph Meaney and John Brehany, director of institutional relations, answer concerns voiced by Catholic health care professionals. They also describe essential elements of ethical triage protocols—especially when it comes to triage teams and exclusionary criteria—and they discuss whether health care providers can withdraw treatment or place a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order without patient consent.
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Physician assistant Kris Correira returns for the second part of her interview on assisted suicide. She explains how the mentality of assisted suicide leads to undertreatment through the misapplication of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and advance directives, and she discusses the future of assisted suicide in the United States.
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Kris Correira, a physician assistant in Worcester, MA, describes why medical professionals are adopting a more positive attitude toward assisted suicide. She explains how this is attributable in part to social factors that promote a mentality of assisted suicide.
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Barry Masa, CEO of LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, explains the role that organ procurement organizations play in ensuring the ethical retrieval and allocation of organs. He also addresses some persistent concerns about organ transplantation in general.
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Attorney Cameo Anders explains the issues that POLST (physician orders for life-sustaining treatment) is meant to solve and those it raises.
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Attorney Cameo Anders discusses how to properly identify a surrogate and use advance directives like living wills and health care powers of attorney to ensure ethical health care decision making after injury or at the end of life.
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