When Life Ends: Legal Overviews, Medicolegal Forms, and Hospital Policies
None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life. When Life Ends was written to fill this gap by an attorney who serves on the bioethics committee of a large public hospital. It is an invaluable resource and practical tool for physicians, nurses, medical staffs, legal professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital bioethics committees because it provides: 1)...
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None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life. When Life Ends was written to fill this gap by an attorney who serves on the bioethics committee of a large public hospital. It is an invaluable resource and practical tool for physicians, nurses, medical staffs, legal professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital bioethics committees because it provides: 1) in-depth legal commentaries on the refusal of life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, surrogate decision making, and the Patient Self-Determination Act; 2) more than 70 medical and legal documents to be used in connection with end of life decisions; and 3) hospital policies and procedures to suggest guidelines to hospital bioethics committees as they carry out their functions of developing policies and procedures to address end of life legal and ethical issues. Booknews Attorney Berger provides physicians, nurses, hospital and nursing home administrators, medical students, and other health-care professionals with a comprehensive compilation of the laws, medicolegal forms to be filled out, and hospital policies and procedures relating to the end of a patient's life. Among the topics are the refusal and termination of life-sustaining treatment, living wills, surrogate decision making, informed consent, do-not-resuscitate orders, and the Patient Self- Determination Act. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordPrefaceIntroduction1ILegal Overviews9Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment11Living Wills33Surrogate Decision Making43Termination of Treatment55Withholding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation63Autonomy and the Federal Government75IIMedicolegal Forms and Hospital Policies79Informed Consent81Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment88Refusal of Treatment by Patients With and Without Decision-Making Capacity93Living Wills102Surrogate Decision Making108Standards for Surrogate Decision Making126Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment128Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders145Patient Self-Determination Act162Legal Citations171References175Table of Cases179Index181
\ From the PublisherBerger provides a unique blend of (1) a discussion of issues that have been problematic in the ethical consideration of end of life issues and (2) the provision of policies and forms that can be used by hospitals and other health care facilities. Very useful to health care institutions and to physicans regarding responsibilities and documentation in end of life situations. General; undergraduate; professional; two-year technical program students.\ -\ Choice\ Although written primarily for physicians and hospital administrators, When Life Ends is certainly appropriate, and perhaps even essential reading for attorney (and their clients) working in health fields, estate planning, and elder law, as well as for social workers, clergy, and private citizens. End-of-life decisions will surely touch many of us either as caregivers, relatives, or patients. When Life Ends provides an objective framework for this often difficult, emotional subject. It is unreservedly recommended for law libraries, medical libraries, and social services collections in universities.\ -\ Legal Information Alert\ …a valuable resource and practical tool for physicians, nurses, medical staffs, legal professional, hospital administrators, and hospital bioethics committees because it provides (1) in-depth legal commentaries on the refusal of life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, surrogate decisionmaking, and the Patient Self-Determination Act; (2) more than seventy medical and legal documents to be used in connection with end of life decisions; and (3) hospital policies and procedures to suggest guidelines to hospital bioethics committees as they carry out their functions of developing policies and procedures to address end of life legal and ethical issues.\ -\ Issues in Law & Medicine\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsAttorney Berger provides physicians, nurses, hospital and nursing home administrators, medical students, and other health-care professionals with a comprehensive compilation of the laws, medicolegal forms to be filled out, and hospital policies and procedures relating to the end of a patient's life. Among the topics are the refusal and termination of life-sustaining treatment, living wills, surrogate decision making, informed consent, do-not-resuscitate orders, and the Patient Self- Determination Act. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com\ \
