Case: Charlie's parents were eager to transfer him to the U.S. for experimental treatment, but the baby's physicians believed his brain damage was too severe and irreversible by the time the treatment was an option, according to BBC news reports. When doctors recommended withdrawing life support, Charlie's parents disagreed. After a legal battle, British judges agreed with the physicians and life-sustaining medical treatment was discontinued. Charlie Gard died in July at the age of 11 months. The story highlighted the tension nurses experience as they care for terminally ill children during an era when technology has made it possible to save patients who would have died in the past. Questions: II. Value deliberation (Identify the moral problems? What values at stake?) II. Duty deliberation (Reflecting on the most challenging cases) IV. Conclusion
Case: Charlie's parents were eager to transfer him to the U.S. for experimental treatment, but the baby's physicians believed his brain damage was too severe and irreversible by the time the treatment was an option, according to BBC news reports. When doctors recommended withdrawing life support, Charlie's parents disagreed. After a legal battle, British judges agreed with the physicians and life-sustaining medical treatment was discontinued. Charlie Gard died in July at the age of 11 months. The story highlighted the tension nurses experience as they care for terminally ill children during an era when technology has made it possible to save patients who would have died in the past. Questions: II. Value deliberation (Identify the moral problems? What values at stake?) II. Duty deliberation (Reflecting on the most challenging cases) IV. Conclusion
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Charlie's parents were eager to transfer him to the U.S. for experimental treatment, but the
baby's physicians believed his brain damage was too severe and irreversible by the time the
treatment was an option, according to BBC news reports.
When doctors recommended withdrawing life support, Charlie's parents disagreed. After a legal
battle, British judges agreed with the physicians and life-sustaining medical treatment was
discontinued. Charlie Gard died in July at the age of 11 months.
The story highlighted the tension nurses experience as they care for terminally ill children during
an era when technology has made it possible to save patients who would have died in the past.
Questions:
II. Value deliberation (Identify the moral problems? What values at stake?)
II. Duty deliberation (Reflecting on the most challenging cases)
IV. Conclusion
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