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“After Life”

In March, Netflix released a six episode series written, acted, and directed by British comedian Ricky Gervais–"After Life." The main character, Tony, has just lost his beloved wife, after 25 years of marriage, to cancer and is trying to get on with life or die in response to his profound, debilitating grief, which is expressed initially through nastiness toward others, without the normal inhibitions that control us. (Continue reading ...)
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Refusing unwanted medical treatment–Part 5: Physician liability, continued

This is the final post of the series reviewing Professor Thaddeus Pope's analysis of why clinicians perceive that not following a patient's preferences about end-of-life care carries little risk for them. Additional legal remedies (causes of action available against clinicians who ignore patient choices), along with administrative penalties, and possible criminal liability for clinicians in some jurisdictions are discussed. (Continue reading ...)
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Refusing unwanted medical treatment–Part 2

In Part 1, I provided an actual case of unwanted life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT), listed Professor Pope's "Twelve Leading Causes of Unwanted Life-Sustaining Treatment," gave the causes of action that may be available for unwanted LSMT, and briefly discussed Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) and other similar documents used in various states.  Here, in Part 2, I delve further into Professor Pope's research on unwanted LSMT. (Continue reading ...)
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Refusing unwanted medical treatment–Part 1

An important right in managing end-of-life medical treatment is the right to make our own decisions, either directly or through a surrogate, about when to refuse unwanted treatments. No one has done more to call attention to the right to reject unwanted medical treatment than Thaddeus Pope, who tracks litigation against medical providers who treat patients in ways the patients do not want to be treated, in direct violation of their expressed written choices, their verbally-expressed decisions, or the decisions of their medical agents. (Continue reading ...)
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