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Re: Jehowah witness medical care From: Robert J. Woolley (wooll005@gold.tc.umn.edu) Mon Sep 30 11:08:09 1996 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Richard Lowensohn: "Re: Jehowah witness medical care" Previous message: DrBryan@aol.com: "Re: nst form" Maybe in reply to: Albert Ohayon: "Jehowah witness medical care" Next in thread: Richard Lowensohn: "Re: Jehowah witness medical care" In message <324F78FF.6BC4@imaginet.fr> writes: > Since few months, the anesthesistes of the private clinic > where I work refuse the Jehowah witness. They try to make them sign > an acceptation of a blood transfusion if they have less than > 4 grammes of hemoglobine. > What do you think of that, what is your self experience > of this problem? I think it's completely unethical, an abrogation of their duty and commitment to provide care. A patient has an absolute right to refuse any test or treatment we offer, so long as they understand the potential consequences. This means that someitmes we have to do the second-best or third-best or fourth-best thing. It doesn't give us the moral right to abandon the patient, especially when it is an urganized refusal by a group of doctors, making it difficult for the patient to find an alternate source of needed care. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a successful malpractice suit by a JW against a physician who was honoring a blood refusal declaration. This seems to be yet another case of physicians putting their own self-interests above those of their patients, a trend which I fear is growing and which I think is among the most morally repugnant things I've seen in medicine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Woolley -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Paul, Minnesota "We're violently opposed to all the Amish. We figure this is safer than being against, say, the Teamsters." Click and Clack, "Car Talk," Sept. 28, 1996 Next message: Richard Lowensohn: "Re: Jehowah witness medical care" Previous message: DrBryan@aol.com: "Re: nst form" Maybe in reply to: Albert Ohayon: "Jehowah witness medical care" Next in thread: Richard Lowensohn: "Re: Jehowah witness medical care"

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