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Re: Legal question From: Charlie Chambers (ricechaz@gorge.net) Fri Mar 17 09:10:39 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Jamie: "history question" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Top Of The Mornin' To You" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Legal question" Next in thread: Rafael Haciski: "Delayed menopause/prolonged climacteric" Reply: Rafael Haciski: "Delayed menopause/prolonged climacteric" Just cut the catheter. It will be up to her to keep it in her body! On Mar 16, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Anna Meenan, MD wrote: > OK, for the lawyers: A doc on another forum is having problems with a > patient who is refusing to comply with the recommended treatments > during > her hospitalization for pneumonia (yes, I know this is an OB-gyn > board, > but this could come up for one of you guys too), notably she is > refusing > to allow discontinuation of her foley after the acute phase of her > illness is over, mainly because she also doesn't want to get out of > bed. > Apparently she is a large woman with no inclination to move. I say > just > deflate the baloon and yank the foley and ignore her request to > leave it > in. Would it be considered assault to DISCONTINUE a foley? I say if > there is no medical need for it, the doc could be liable if the lady > gets septic from a UTI. What say the medico-legal experts? > ************************************************************************ * Charlie Chambers -- Hood River, OR cchamber@alumni.rice.edu "No matter where you go... there you are." Dr. Buckaroo Banzai ************************************************************************ Next message: Jamie: "history question" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Top Of The Mornin' To You" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Legal question" Next in thread: Rafael Haciski: "Delayed menopause/prolonged climacteric" Reply: Rafael Haciski: "Delayed menopause/prolonged climacteric"

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