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Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue of Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which the care team felt conflicted about how to respond to a patient who had previously asked for “treatment until I get better,” but was now dying.

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Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue of Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which a gastroenterologist felt conflicted about providing a procedure to a patient who had repeatedly engaged in self-harming behavior.

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Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue highlights a case in which the treatment team felt conflicted about discharging a patient with a history of injection drug use who needed ongoing intravenous antibiotic therapy.

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Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue of Brigham Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which the daughter of a dying patient asked the treatment team to procure his sperm for future reproductive use.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue of BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which a family member refused to let the care team administer adequate pain medication to a patient who lacked decision-making capacity.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review

While BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review reviews a case each month, this edition is devoted to coverage of the Wiese Lecture.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review: “We Want to Do Everything”

This issue of the BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which the parents of a terminally ill infant asked the care team to continue "doing everything" to keep their child alive.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review

BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review, a monthly newsletter, is published by the BWH Office of Clinical Ethics. Each issue highlights a BWH case that posed an ethical problem for a patient, family members and/or caregivers, leading to an ethics consultation and BWH Ethics Committee discussion.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review

This issue of the BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review highlights a case in which an elderly patient lacked decisional capacity and had no one to speak for her.

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review

Is it ethically defensible to transfer an embryo that is known to carry a disease-causing mutation?

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BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review: Giving Everyone a Voice

How do power dynamics affect patient and family communication with clinicians?