When a patient demands what health care providers deem foolish: medical-ethical analysis of the case of Baby K.
D000533:Altruism; D000757:Anencephaly; D026686:Beneficence; D002961:Civil Rights; D032921:Consensus; D003657:Decision Making; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004989:Ethics; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D035082:Federal Government; D005610:Freedom; D006076:Government; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006282:Health Personnel; D006300:Health Services Misuse; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D033222:Judicial Role; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008020:Life Support Care; D018447:Medical Futility; D009014:Morals; D009035:Mothers; D026706:Paternalism; D010360:Patient Transfer; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011379:Prognosis; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012945:Social Values; D013219:State Government; D026712:Value of Life; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical; D035761:Wedge Argument; D028761:Withholding Treatment
Americans with Disabilities Act 1990; Child Abuse Amendments 1984; Death and Euthanasia; Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act 1986; Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, VA); Health Care Decisions Act of Virginia; In re Baby K; Legal Approach; Rehabilitation Act 1973