…should also consider limiting who can explain these forms to qualified medical staff such as doctors and physician assistants, and exclude social workers and others who lack medical training. Errors in completion of Health Care Proxy, MOLST, and nonhospital DNR forms are one of a number of factors leading to equally important errors in interpretation of these forms by medical personnel. Errors of interpretation are of great concern because they ca…
…health care proxy, out-of-hospital do not resuscitate order (DNR) and medical orders for life sustaining treatment (MOLST). As I prepared to respond to this request for comment, I happened to describe it to someone I know, a woman in her 50’s who had a hysterectomy a few years ago. She said that she had a DNR. This surprised me in light of other comments she has made, so I asked her if she didn’t want CPR. She said that she would want CPR, and th…
…e used to bar a newly graduated engineer with spina bifida or another physical limitation from entering or staying in the country because at some point in the future she may apply for a Medicaid waiver to get in-home support so she can work until retirement age.” “For instance, the presence of a medical condition considered ‘likely’ to require extensive medical treatment or institutionalization, or that may interfere with the ability to provide fo…
…ience, the lives of people with disabilities are routinely devalued in medical decision-making. Negative biases and inaccurate assumptions about disabled people persist. In medical situations, these biases can have serious and even deadly consequences. Beginning on September 25, the National Council on Disability (NCD) is releasing a series of reports on bioethics and disability. The five reports were developed through a cooperative agreement with…
…did not sufficiently limit the definition of “terminal illness.” These are flaws in the bill itself, identified by opponents in a discussion of policy. These concerns do not come from political or religious affiliation, and they should not be dismissed as such. Cathy Ludlum, Manchester Online link is to all the letters in today’s paper is here….
