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On 29 Jan 00 at 11:36, Carole Hercun wrote: > My gut reaction is that this is a truly terrifying > scenario. > Every PWP's worst nightmare...that they will end up locked > inside a body made of stone, while they are trapped inside > kicking and screaming to get out and nobody able to hear > them. Also, as a member of the medical establishment, I > don't understand what's going on here. WHY are these > doctors, nurses, etc. riding roughshod over this family's > wishes? Ignoring ethical considerations, the situation > doesn't even make sense as far as their lability is > concerned, given today's litigious society. And this > happened in CANADA? Carole > Hi Carole, This did indeed happen in Canada in the last coupla years.... It was well covered by the media as it is sensational and controversial. It's not quite as cut n'dried as Jack Kevorkian & Mike Wallace on 60 Min. however.... We assume Dr's. training includes becoming familiar with applicable living will statutes as well as the ethical issues surrounding termination of life support, do-not-resuscitate orders, and informed consent. We assume Dr's. training includes a review of current criteria for the clinical diagnosis of brain death. Read these papers and think about it......... Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Must Be Clear and Present - 1996 (USA) http://news.medscape.com/jobson/MedTribNews/1996/sep/11/NoNotResuscitate Orders.html Canadian Medical Association - Jan. 27th. '98 Court verdict "splendid," ethics professor says... http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-158/issue-2/0159a.htm Canadian physicians now operate under a revised Code of Ethics 10/98 http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol%2D155/issue%2D8/1148.htm Discussion Paper on this particular case courtesy of The Centre for Renewal in Public Policy http://www.centreforrenewal.ca/lex-23.html News Archive - Nov. 13th. '98 http://www.canoe.ca/NewsArchiveNov98/candigest_nov13.html Judge lifts do-not-resuscitate order -- for now Scroll down to.... WINNIPEG (CP) -- A judge has lifted an involuntary do-not-resuscitate order doctors put on a 79-year-old man in a Winnipeg hospital. The Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) Feb. '98 http://www.pcs.mb.ca/~ccd/lw12298.html Manitoba League MLPD speaks out....... Dec. 23rd. '98 http://www.pcs.mb.ca/~ccd/lw231298.html Provincial Health Ethics Network reprint... This article first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press - Nov. 18 '98 http://www.phen.ab.ca/materials/intouch/vol2/intouch2-01.html Death in Winnipeg - from the Fraser Institute... http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/publications/forum/1999/01/death.html Canadian Medical Association - March23rd. 1999 http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-160/issue-6/0869.htm Ethics in Law Scroll down to: When Can Physicians Say No? http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:cpa.medical.org/pubs/bulletin/featu res.htm Winnipeg DNR man goes home - July '99 http://www.lifesite.net/interim/1999/july/acrosscanada.html Canadian Bioethics Report, August 1999: Court Decisions Scroll down to: Sawatzky v. Riverview Health Centre Inc. (Update) http://www.cma.ca/cbr/aug99/court.htm I recall reading of Mr. Sawatsky's death late in the fall of 1999 Carole, there's a lot more here than meets the eye......... regards ............. murray [log in to unmask]