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Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care.
A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends".
Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care.
Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant.
While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition.
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
- published: 16 Apr 2014
- views: 905
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
- published: 01 Jul 2014
- views: 598
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis
05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy
05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy
06:34 - Alternative Approaches
08:04 - Alternative Approaches
08:50 - Conclusion
- published: 23 Aug 2016
- views: 245
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system.
Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates.
A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more.
Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider.
To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited.
Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services.
Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose.
Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight.
But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless.
To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing."
- published: 23 Feb 2017
- views: 574
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices.
生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
佛教蓮花基金會
- published: 12 May 2014
- views: 163
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t
December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care.
Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced.
David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation.
But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life.
Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive.
But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections.
"Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment."
The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family.
That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care.
In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful.
Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care.
One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?"
Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life.
He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel."
Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday.
However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life.
"Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.”
The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.”
The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends.
Contact:
Houston Methodist Hospital
Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO
mboom@houstonmethodist.org
1-877-709-DOCS (3627)
6565 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
- published: 05 Dec 2015
- views: 949
Futile medical care
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
Definition of futile care
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings. Health care is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions. It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
Access to health care varies across countries, groups, and individuals, largely influenced by social and economic conditions as well as the health policies in place. Countries and jurisdictions have different policies and plans in relation to the personal and population-based health care goals within their societies. Health care systems are organizations established to meet the health needs of target populations. Their exact configuration varies between national and subnational entities. In some countries and jurisdictions, health care planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others, planning occurs more centrally among governments or other coordinating bodies. In all cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a well-functioning health care system requires a robust financing mechanism; a well-trained and adequately-paid workforce; reliable information on which to base decisions and policies; and well maintained health facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies.
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4:12What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaningWhat is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit. Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death. In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin. Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care. A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends". Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care. Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant. While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition. -
17:42Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them. -
49:13Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining TreatmentEthics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422] -
8:03Futile Medical Care
Futile Medical CareFutile Medical Care
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6:48Futile interventions question medical system's focus
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4:37Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical FutilityTen Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b -
9:18Medical Futility
Medical FutilityMedical Futility
futility Table of Contents: 01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings 01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy 01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis 05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy 05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy 06:34 - Alternative Approaches 08:04 - Alternative Approaches 08:50 - Conclusion -
6:07Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory PricingEx-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system. Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates. A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more. Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider. To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited. Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services. Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose. Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight. But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless. To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing." -
0:41Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版） At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices. 生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴 Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation 佛教蓮花基金會 -
1:44Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatmentTx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care. Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced. David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation. But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life. Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive. But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections. "Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment." The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family. That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care. In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful. Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care. One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?" Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life. He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel." Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday. However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life. "Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.” The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.” The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends. Contact: Houston Methodist Hospital Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO mboom@houstonmethodist.org 1-877-709-DOCS (3627) 6565 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77030
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit. Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death. In the broadest sense, futile care is care tha...
published: 12 Feb 2017 -
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
published: 16 Apr 2014 -
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
published: 02 Jun 2015 -
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Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
published: 01 Jul 2014 -
Medical Futility
futility Table of Contents: 01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings 01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy 01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis 05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy 05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy 06:34 - Alternative Approaches 08:04 - Alternative Approaches 08:50 - Conclusion
published: 23 Aug 2016 -
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system. Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not s...
published: 23 Feb 2017 -
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版） At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices. 生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴 Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation 佛教蓮花基金會
published: 12 May 2014 -
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care. Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced. David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks af...
published: 05 Dec 2015
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation....
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care.
A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends".
Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care.
Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant.
While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition.
https://wn.com/What_Is_Futile_Medical_Care_What_Does_Futile_Medical_Care_Mean_Futile_Medical_Care_Meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care.
A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends".
Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care.
Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant.
While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition.
- published: 12 Feb 2017
- views: 143
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 17:42
- Updated: 16 Apr 2014
- views: 905
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not benefici...
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
https://wn.com/Medical_Futility_Who_Decides_To_Stop_Treatment
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
- published: 16 Apr 2014
- views: 905
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 49:13
- Updated: 02 Jun 2015
- views: 1326
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pe...
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
https://wn.com/Ethics_Of_Futile_Life_Sustaining_Treatment
Futile Medical Care
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- Duration: 8:03
- Updated: 10 Apr 2017
- views: 18
Futile interventions question medical system's focus
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:48
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 1610
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over palliative care. See more from 7.30 at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over palliative care. See more from 7.30 at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30
https://wn.com/Futile_Interventions_Question_Medical_System's_Focus
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 01 Jul 2014
- views: 598
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue o...
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
https://wn.com/Ten_Common_Questions_(And_Their_Answers)_On_Medical_Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
- published: 01 Jul 2014
- views: 598
Medical Futility
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:18
- Updated: 23 Aug 2016
- views: 245
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are the...
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis
05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy
05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy
06:34 - Alternative Approaches
08:04 - Alternative Approaches
08:50 - Conclusion
https://wn.com/Medical_Futility
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis
05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy
05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy
06:34 - Alternative Approaches
08:04 - Alternative Approaches
08:50 - Conclusion
- published: 23 Aug 2016
- views: 245
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:07
- Updated: 23 Feb 2017
- views: 574
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that...
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system.
Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates.
A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more.
Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider.
To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited.
Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services.
Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose.
Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight.
But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless.
To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing."
https://wn.com/Ex_Hospital_Chief_Says_Health_Care_Fees_Are_A_Total_Scam_Predatory_Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system.
Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates.
A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more.
Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider.
To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited.
Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services.
Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose.
Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight.
But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless.
To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing."
- published: 23 Feb 2017
- views: 574
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:41
- Updated: 12 May 2014
- views: 163
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical de...
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices.
生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
佛教蓮花基金會
https://wn.com/Public_Service_Advertisement_Of_Refusing_Futile_Medical_Care_拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices.
生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
佛教蓮花基金會
- published: 12 May 2014
- views: 163
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 05 Dec 2015
- views: 949
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-...
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t
December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care.
Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced.
David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation.
But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life.
Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive.
But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections.
"Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment."
The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family.
That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care.
In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful.
Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care.
One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?"
Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life.
He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel."
Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday.
However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life.
"Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.”
The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.”
The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends.
Contact:
Houston Methodist Hospital
Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO
mboom@houstonmethodist.org
1-877-709-DOCS (3627)
6565 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
https://wn.com/Tx_Patient_Prays_For_Life_As_Hospital_Seeks_To_Deny_Him_Treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t
December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care.
Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced.
David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation.
But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life.
Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive.
But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections.
"Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment."
The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family.
That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care.
In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful.
Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care.
One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?"
Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life.
He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel."
Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday.
However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life.
"Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.”
The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.”
The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends.
Contact:
Houston Methodist Hospital
Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO
mboom@houstonmethodist.org
1-877-709-DOCS (3627)
6565 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
- published: 05 Dec 2015
- views: 949
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit. Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death. In the broadest sense, futile care is care tha...
published: 12 Feb 2017 -
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
published: 16 Apr 2014 -
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
published: 02 Jun 2015 -
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Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
published: 01 Jul 2014 -
Medical Futility
futility Table of Contents: 01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings 01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy 01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy? 02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility 03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis 05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy 05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy 06:34 - Alternative Approaches 08:04 - Alternative Approaches 08:50 - Conclusion
published: 23 Aug 2016 -
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system. Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not s...
published: 23 Feb 2017 -
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版） At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices. 生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴 Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation 佛教蓮花基金會
published: 12 May 2014 -
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care. Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced. David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks af...
published: 05 Dec 2015
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 12 Feb 2017
- views: 143
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation....
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care.
A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends".
Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care.
Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant.
While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition.
https://wn.com/What_Is_Futile_Medical_Care_What_Does_Futile_Medical_Care_Mean_Futile_Medical_Care_Meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE definition - FUTILE MEDICAL CARE explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.
Futile medical care is the continued provision of medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit.
Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit. Futile care is distinct from euthanasia because euthanasia involves active intervention to end life, while withholding futile medical care does not encourage or hasten the natural onset of death.
In the broadest sense, futile care is care that does not benefit the patient as a whole, including physical, spiritual, or other benefits. This may be interpreted differently in different legal, ethical, or religious contexts. Clinicians and health care providers may need to rely on a more narrow definition of futile care in order to make decisions about a patient's health care, and this definition often centers around an assessment of the likelihood that a patient could physically recover as a result of treatment, or the likelihood of such treatment to relieve a patient's suffering. Examples of futile care may be a surgeon operating on a terminal cancer patient even when the surgery will not alleviate suffering; or doctors keeping a brain-dead person on life-support machines for reasons other than to procure their organs for donation. It is a sensitive area that often causes conflicts among medical practitioners and patients or kin.
Many controversies surrounding the concept of futile care center around how futility is assessed differently in specific situations rather than on arguments in favor of providing futile care per se. It is difficult to determine when a particular course of action may fall under the definition of futile medical care, because of the difficulty in defining the point at which there is no further benefit to intervention in each case. For instance, a cancer patient may be willing to undergo yet more chemotherapy with a very expensive medication for the benefit of a few weeks of life, while medical staff, insurance company staff, and close relatives may believe this is a futile course of care.
A 2010 survey of more than 10,000 physicians in the United States found respondents divided on the issue of recommending or giving "life-sustaining therapy when judged that it was futile", with 23.6% saying they would do so, 37% saying they would not, and 39.4% selecting "It depends".
Arguments against providing futile care include potential harm to patients, family members or caregivers with little or no likely benefits, and the diversion of resources to support the futile care of patients when resources could be used to provide care to patients that could respond to care.
Futile care does not offer benefits to the patient as a whole, and at the same time the physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or ethical hardship and harm caused by futile care to the patient or to family members may be significant.
While futile care does not benefit patients, it may cost providers, the state, and patient families significant money and resources. In some cases, futile care involves the expenditure of resources that could be used by other patients with a good likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. For instance, in the case of Baby K, attempts to transfer the infant to other centers were unsuccessful because there were apparently no unoccupied pediatric ICU beds in the region. Many critics of that case insist that the medical expenses used to keep the anencephalic child on life support for over two years could have been better spent on awareness and prevention efforts for her condition.
- published: 12 Feb 2017
- views: 143
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 17:42
- Updated: 16 Apr 2014
- views: 905
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not benefici...
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
https://wn.com/Medical_Futility_Who_Decides_To_Stop_Treatment
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to handle situations when a patient wants treatment that is not beneficial to them.
- published: 16 Apr 2014
- views: 905
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 49:13
- Updated: 02 Jun 2015
- views: 1326
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pe...
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
https://wn.com/Ethics_Of_Futile_Life_Sustaining_Treatment
Futile Medical Care
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:03
- Updated: 10 Apr 2017
- views: 18
Futile interventions question medical system's focus
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:48
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 1610
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over palliative care. See more from 7.30 at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over palliative care. See more from 7.30 at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30
https://wn.com/Futile_Interventions_Question_Medical_System's_Focus
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 01 Jul 2014
- views: 598
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue o...
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
https://wn.com/Ten_Common_Questions_(And_Their_Answers)_On_Medical_Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, describes his article appearing in the July 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which offers clinicians, patients, and advocates, a clear definition of medical futility. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/k5nd82b
- published: 01 Jul 2014
- views: 598
Medical Futility
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:18
- Updated: 23 Aug 2016
- views: 245
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are the...
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis
05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy
05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy
06:34 - Alternative Approaches
08:04 - Alternative Approaches
08:50 - Conclusion
https://wn.com/Medical_Futility
futility
Table of Contents:
01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift Towards Autonomy
01:57 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:17 - Are there limits to Autonomy?
02:56 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:02 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:07 - Definitions of Medical Futility
03:44 - Disagreements with Prognosis
05:21 - Benefits of a Process Based Medical Futility Policy
05:56 - Risks of a Process-Based Policy
06:34 - Alternative Approaches
08:04 - Alternative Approaches
08:50 - Conclusion
- published: 23 Aug 2016
- views: 245
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:07
- Updated: 23 Feb 2017
- views: 574
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that...
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system.
Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates.
A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more.
Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider.
To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited.
Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services.
Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose.
Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight.
But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless.
To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing."
https://wn.com/Ex_Hospital_Chief_Says_Health_Care_Fees_Are_A_Total_Scam_Predatory_Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Steven Weissman an attorney and former hospital president who claims that the Health Care pricing has been fixed by the health care insurance providers. Steven Weissman states that people pay a very different price depending on whether they have insurance or not and who they have insurance with. "I recently served as president of a Miami hospital and got an insider’s view of the healthcare system. The lack of “legitimate” healthcare pricing has destroyed the system.
Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. Because billing rates are not set, the industry is able to prey on patients at their most vulnerable. And if you are out of network or uninsured, you pay the highest rates.
A simple blood test for cholesterol can range from $10 to $400 or more at the same lab. Hospitalization for chest pain can result in a bill from the same hospital for the same services ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $25,000 or more.
Price transparency initiatives are futile when prices may vary by a factor of 100 for the exact same service performed by the same provider.
To stop the bleeding, Congress need only require that healthcare providers publish “legitimate pricing” which means, they can continue to set their own rates, but - a different rate for each patient - must be prohibited.
Rates must be published in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. Every citizen would be empowered to search any medical procedure online and see pricing for all providers within X miles. It would be as easy and familiar as checking the price of any other goods or services.
Legitimate prices mean networks will be obsolete, along with the administrative burdens, tremendous costs, and limitations on patient choice which they impose.
Reducing healthcare costs is the only way to materially lower health insurance premiums. Legitimate pricing will force providers to compete. Costs and therefore insurance premiums will plummet overnight.
But if we keep the status quo, we will continue to see rising prices and outrage over medical bills. We shouldn’t have a system that makes us so powerless.
To reverse our nation’s financial bleeding and end restrictions on patient choice, we petition for the President-Elect's support for Congress to empower citizens by mandating legitimate healthcare pricing."
- published: 23 Feb 2017
- views: 574
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:41
- Updated: 12 May 2014
- views: 163
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical de...
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices.
生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
佛教蓮花基金會
https://wn.com/Public_Service_Advertisement_Of_Refusing_Futile_Medical_Care_拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last moment of life, you can choose without the accompaniment of medical devices.
生命的最後 你可以選擇 不要儀器的陪伴
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
佛教蓮花基金會
- published: 12 May 2014
- views: 163
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 05 Dec 2015
- views: 949
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-...
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t
December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care.
Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced.
David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation.
But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life.
Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive.
But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections.
"Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment."
The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family.
That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care.
In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful.
Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care.
One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?"
Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life.
He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel."
Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday.
However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life.
"Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.”
The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.”
The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends.
Contact:
Houston Methodist Hospital
Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO
mboom@houstonmethodist.org
1-877-709-DOCS (3627)
6565 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
https://wn.com/Tx_Patient_Prays_For_Life_As_Hospital_Seeks_To_Deny_Him_Treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives who dies based on the medical costs of keeping someone alive. Must-see video: Texas patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/must-see-video-texas-patient-prays-for-life-as-hospital-seeks-to-deny-him-t
December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Chris Dunn is praying for his life, as the "faith-based" medical center currently treating him is taking extraordinary means to cut off care.
Houston Methodist Hospital is seeking to strip the 46-year-old's mother of legal custody, so it can deny her son life-sustaining medical treatment, Texas Right to Life announced.
David Christopher Dunn, who goes by Chris, has been hospitalized for about seven weeks after he began spitting up blood due to an undefined internal issue possibly related to his pancreas. He is on a breathing tube and receives heavy sedation.
But a video shows him alert and able to respond to questions - even to plead for his life.
Because of his medicated state his mother, Evelyn, exercises power of attorney on his behalf. Both she and her son want to fight for his chance to survive.
But the staff of Houston Methodist decided that providing Dunn with further treatment would be ineffective and have invoked a state law allowing them to remove his ventilation tube, effectively ending his life - even if it is done over the patient's objections.
"Chris is an American hero, who has served his community and the nation as an EMT, a police dispatcher, a Harris County Sheriff, and a Homeland Security employee. Chris even fought Somali pirates as part of a security team," Texas Right to Life, which is assisting the family in the case, said. "Rather than protecting Chris’s right to life, the state of Texas is rewarding his lifetime of selfless service by relinquishing him to a hospital panel, who have judged his quality of life too low to merit continued treatment."
The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment after giving the patients 10 days notice. Hospitals that deem a patient's treatment futile may also impose a Do Not Resuscitate order on the patient, even if doing so contradicts his express wishes or those of his family.
That makes Texas more liberal than New York state, which requires a patient's consent before ending critical end-of-life care.
In November, the hospital sent Evelyn a letter stating its intention to end care in 10 days, sending the family scurrying to find a hospital that would place Chris, who has no medical insurance, in its intensive care unit. So far, the search has been unsuccessful.
Rather than give up, his mother turned to legal counsel. In a video just posted to YouTube, Chris nods his head affirmatively when Evelyn asks for his consent to hire lawyers to help him continue receiving care.
One of the two lawyers hired to help his case - former Texas State Representative Joe Nixon - says, "Chris, we're trying to make sure the hospital continues giving you good care. Do you want to stay alive?"
Dunn joins his hands in prayer, pleading for his life.
He then nodded, agreeing to be legally represented by Nixon and his fellow attorney Trey Trainor, who called the hospital's ethics committee a "death panel."
Since the November letter, a local judge in Houston has granted the family a two-week extension. A second two-week extension was granted on Thursday.
However, the hospital sought to wrestle legal custody of Dunn away from his mother, ending their legal battle to deny him care, according to Texas Right to Life.
"Since Evelyn would not succumb to pressure from the hospital to impose death upon Chris, Methodist’s lawyers are now trying to remove Evelyn from Chris’s bedside and from his medical care," the group said after the court proceeding. "The hospital is attempting to neutralize her ability to protect the life of her 40-something-year-old son.”
The hospital cited its faith and values in standing by its decision to end Dunn's care. “Houston Methodist is a faith-based, values-centered organization that strives to make the best choices for all our patients,” the hospital said in a statement. “End-of-life decisions are never easy, but Texas law is clear about our hospital's responsibility in these cases.”
The family has 13 days left to find a hospital willing to treat Dunn before the present extension ends.
Contact:
Houston Methodist Hospital
Dr. Marc L. Boom, President and CEO
mboom@houstonmethodist.org
1-877-709-DOCS (3627)
6565 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
- published: 05 Dec 2015
- views: 949
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Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
published: 02 Jun 2015 -
Medical Futility Henry Silverman
medical futility
published: 11 Oct 2011 -
Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU (Grand Rounds)
Emory Medicine Grand Rounds - 5/2/2017 TOPIC: “Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU: Resolving (Intractable) Conflict" LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Discuss the role of communication in avoiding goal conflict in end-of-life decision-making. Define futility and contrast this with potentially inappropriate treatments. Understand the ethically necessary steps for process-based resolution procedures for conflicts in the ICU. SPEAKER: Gabriel Timothy Bosslet, MD, MA Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine; Fellowship Director, Indiana University Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Affiliate faculty member, Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics MORE GRAND ROUNDS VIDEOS: Visit www.bitly.com/dom-grandrounds APPROVED CREDIT: This activity has been planned and implemente...
published: 05 Jun 2017 -
2014 ICEL – Assoc Prof Thaddeus Pope: Medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment
Learn about ACHLR here: http://ow.ly/DHWey Associate Professor Thaddeus Pope from Hamline University delivered a keynote address on ‘Resolution of intractable medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment: United States law and practice’ at the International Conference on End of Life in Brisbane, 2014. The conference was co-hosted by QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre.
published: 27 Apr 2015 -
Autonomy futility and medicine and Bouvia
published: 16 Feb 2017 -
SA STGEC G&G; GR: Medical Futility Ethics (2014)
November 13th, 2014 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds re: "The Ethics of Medical Futility (EPEC-compatible)" by San Antonio Social Work Icon Russell Gainer, MSSW, LCSW. Enduring material continuing education by medical pros-4-medical pros. Follow-up sister video to 2012 rounds by the same presenter: http://youtu.be/D4rV-CZMhL0. Presented for personal use and for the good of personkind by the S. Texas Geriatric Education Center (STGEC) in San Antonio, TX, USA. For more information on securing geriatric education videos on topics ranging from dementia & pharmacy to caregiving & diabetes, surf THIS continuing education channel further. Feel free to LEARN from and then LIKE and SHARE this MedEdVid. Please SUBSCRIBE too as well! Information ca...
published: 18 Nov 2014 -
Medical Futility: Legal Status Nationwide and in Minnesota, What Does the Future Hold? (2 of 2)
published: 19 Jan 2014 -
A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu
Google Tech Talk April 23, 2009 ABSTRACT A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder. Several so called "computer medical diagnosis programs" have been devised. We had a chance to review Internist, Quick Medical Reference (QMR), DXplain, Iliad, Gideon, Isabel, and others; some are no longer available. All this systems evoke a typically long differential diagnosis list, based on patient's symptoms, providing an excellent reminder of unusual diagnoses; however, they are unable to pinpoint the actual disease or diseases that indeed afflict a specific patient. Consequently, they are considered rather teaching or training tools for medical students or inexperienced physicians, as admitted by some of the program authors; for this r...
published: 25 Apr 2009 -
Target Selection in Parkinson's Disease: Where and Why - Zachery Levine, MD
http://www.seattlesciencefoundation.org Seattle Science Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the international collaboration among physicians, scientists, technologists, engineers and educators. The Foundation's training facilities and extensive internet connectivity have been designed to foster improvements in health care through professional medical education, training, creative dialogue and innovation. NOTE: All archived recorded lectures are available for informational purposes only and are only eligible for self-claimed Category II credit. They are not intended to serve as, or be the basis of a medical opinion, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment for any particular patient.
published: 09 Sep 2016 -
"Maternal Fetal Conflict: Ethical Issues in Pregnancy" by Dr. Christy Cummings for OPENPediatrics
Please visit: www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu Please note: OPENPediatrics does not support nor control any related vi...
published: 01 Jul 2016
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 49:13
- Updated: 02 Jun 2015
- views: 1326
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pe...
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Recorded on 12.05.2014. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [6/2015] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]
https://wn.com/Ethics_Of_Futile_Life_Sustaining_Treatment
Medical Futility Henry Silverman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:30
- Updated: 11 Oct 2011
- views: 195
medical futility
medical futility
https://wn.com/Medical_Futility_Henry_Silverman
medical futility
- published: 11 Oct 2011
- views: 195
Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU (Grand Rounds)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 51:06
- Updated: 05 Jun 2017
- views: 86
Emory Medicine Grand Rounds - 5/2/2017
TOPIC: “Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU: Resolving (Intractable) Conflict"
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Discuss the r...
Emory Medicine Grand Rounds - 5/2/2017
TOPIC: “Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU: Resolving (Intractable) Conflict"
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Discuss the role of communication in avoiding goal conflict in end-of-life decision-making.
Define futility and contrast this with potentially inappropriate treatments.
Understand the ethically necessary steps for process-based resolution procedures for conflicts in the ICU.
SPEAKER:
Gabriel Timothy Bosslet, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine;
Fellowship Director, Indiana University Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Affiliate faculty member, Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics
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APPROVED CREDIT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the essential areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Emory University School of Medicine is an ACCME-accredited sponsor to provide continuing medical education credits to physicians.
Emory designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This seminar is valid for three years from the original seminar date. Expiration date: May 2, 2020.
*Any financial disclosures are included in video.
Questions? Please contact deptofmed@emory.edu.
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Emory Medicine Grand Rounds - 5/2/2017
TOPIC: “Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU: Resolving (Intractable) Conflict"
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Discuss the role of communication in avoiding goal conflict in end-of-life decision-making.
Define futility and contrast this with potentially inappropriate treatments.
Understand the ethically necessary steps for process-based resolution procedures for conflicts in the ICU.
SPEAKER:
Gabriel Timothy Bosslet, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine;
Fellowship Director, Indiana University Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Affiliate faculty member, Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics
MORE GRAND ROUNDS VIDEOS: Visit www.bitly.com/dom-grandrounds
APPROVED CREDIT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the essential areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Emory University School of Medicine is an ACCME-accredited sponsor to provide continuing medical education credits to physicians.
Emory designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This seminar is valid for three years from the original seminar date. Expiration date: May 2, 2020.
*Any financial disclosures are included in video.
Questions? Please contact deptofmed@emory.edu.
- published: 05 Jun 2017
- views: 86
2014 ICEL – Assoc Prof Thaddeus Pope: Medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 43:54
- Updated: 27 Apr 2015
- views: 169
Learn about ACHLR here: http://ow.ly/DHWey
Associate Professor Thaddeus Pope from Hamline University delivered a keynote address on ‘Resolution of intractable ...
Learn about ACHLR here: http://ow.ly/DHWey
Associate Professor Thaddeus Pope from Hamline University delivered a keynote address on ‘Resolution of intractable medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment: United States law and practice’ at the International Conference on End of Life in Brisbane, 2014.
The conference was co-hosted by QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre.
https://wn.com/2014_Icel_–_Assoc_Prof_Thaddeus_Pope_Medical_Futility_Conflicts_Over_Life_Sustaining_Treatment
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Associate Professor Thaddeus Pope from Hamline University delivered a keynote address on ‘Resolution of intractable medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment: United States law and practice’ at the International Conference on End of Life in Brisbane, 2014.
The conference was co-hosted by QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre.
- published: 27 Apr 2015
- views: 169
Autonomy futility and medicine and Bouvia
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:32
- Updated: 16 Feb 2017
- views: 14
- published: 16 Feb 2017
- views: 14
SA STGEC G&G; GR: Medical Futility Ethics (2014)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 42:50
- Updated: 18 Nov 2014
- views: 141
November 13th, 2014 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds re: "The Ethics of Medical Futility (EPEC-compatible)" by ...
November 13th, 2014 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds re: "The Ethics of Medical Futility (EPEC-compatible)" by San Antonio Social Work Icon Russell Gainer, MSSW, LCSW. Enduring material continuing education by medical pros-4-medical pros. Follow-up sister video to 2012 rounds by the same presenter: http://youtu.be/D4rV-CZMhL0.
Presented for personal use and for the good of personkind by the S. Texas Geriatric Education Center (STGEC) in San Antonio, TX, USA.
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(The views, opinions, or conclusions expressed in this original opus are not given nor endorsed by any city, county, state or federal institution or authority.)
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November 13th, 2014 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds re: "The Ethics of Medical Futility (EPEC-compatible)" by San Antonio Social Work Icon Russell Gainer, MSSW, LCSW. Enduring material continuing education by medical pros-4-medical pros. Follow-up sister video to 2012 rounds by the same presenter: http://youtu.be/D4rV-CZMhL0.
Presented for personal use and for the good of personkind by the S. Texas Geriatric Education Center (STGEC) in San Antonio, TX, USA.
For more information on securing geriatric education videos on topics ranging from dementia & pharmacy to caregiving & diabetes, surf THIS continuing education channel further. Feel free to LEARN from and then LIKE and SHARE this MedEdVid. Please SUBSCRIBE too as well!
Information can and will change so always consult your own medico-legal-spiritual providers for actionable intel. HHS-2-GEC funded.
(The views, opinions, or conclusions expressed in this original opus are not given nor endorsed by any city, county, state or federal institution or authority.)
- published: 18 Nov 2014
- views: 141
Medical Futility: Legal Status Nationwide and in Minnesota, What Does the Future Hold? (2 of 2)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:44
- Updated: 19 Jan 2014
- views: 107
- published: 19 Jan 2014
- views: 107
A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:02:07
- Updated: 25 Apr 2009
- views: 10102
Google Tech Talk
April 23, 2009
ABSTRACT
A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder.
Several s...
Google Tech Talk
April 23, 2009
ABSTRACT
A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder.
Several so called "computer medical diagnosis programs" have been devised. We had a chance to review Internist, Quick Medical Reference (QMR), DXplain, Iliad, Gideon, Isabel, and others; some are no longer available. All this systems evoke a typically long differential diagnosis list, based on patient's symptoms, providing an excellent reminder of unusual diagnoses; however, they are unable to pinpoint the actual disease or diseases that indeed afflict a specific patient. Consequently, they are considered rather teaching or training tools for medical students or inexperienced physicians, as admitted by some of the program authors; for this reason and being quite time consuming to consult, these programs are poorly accepted and used by practicing health care providers. Our novel diagnostic system overcomes the drawbacks of existing programs, emulating as close as possible the natural reasoning of human clinicians. The core of our system is the novel mini-max procedure that computes the probability of each potential diagnosis more accurately than Bayes formula, Bayesian networks, and other similar methods; the system also diagnoses concurrent diseases that simultaneously afflict a single patient. Mini-max procedure enables to determine probabilistically and recommend at each diagnostic step the best cost-benefit clinical data next to investigate in a patient. This facilitates important overall cost saving-cost comprising expense, risk, and discomfort of obtaining clinical data-for patents and saving of available medical resources, by discouraging the ordering of futile tests or procedures. Our system is capable of diagnosing complex clinical presentations and precludes overlooking diagnoses associated with confirmed diagnoses. For all its virtues, our diagnostic system offers important socio-economic benefits that have the potential to change the way medicine will be practiced in the future; it is expected to provide invaluable benefits to patients, physicians, nurses, hospitals, health insurance companies, malpractice insurance companies and lawyers, and the entire medical establishment.
Presented by Carlos Feder
Carlos Feder was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In that country he practiced internal medicine for 30 years and at the same time taught this specialty at the University Hospital. For the past half century, his obsession to invent and improve an algorithm of computerizing medical diagnosis led him to review existing relevant literature, publish papers, and secure research grants from Roemmers pharmaceuticals. In 1983, he immigrated to Palo Alto, California, where he practiced his specialty for another 19 years before retiring in 2002. Since then he dedicated most of his time organizing his experience and novel ideas, and describing his medical diagnostic algorithm that promises to be a breakthrough in the field. Author of two books: Computerized Medical Diagnosis: a Novel Solution to an Old Problem (2006), and A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients (2008), coauthored with Tomás Feder. Email: caline@earthlink.net Tomas Feder
Tomás Feder, son of Carlos, was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained, with honors, his baccalaureate from the French School in the mentioned city. In 1983 he immigrated with his parents and sister to the United States, where he received his PHD in Computer Sciences from Stanford University. He was one of the outstanding students of his prestigious adviser Donald Knuth. Tomás worked for several years as a researcher at IBM. His curriculum includes over 120 publications, personal and with coauthors around the world. With Moshe Vardi as coauthor, they publish a landmark paper in 1993 (conference version) and in 1998 (journal version) that created a new specialty of Computer Sciences named Constraint Satisfaction, crossroads of mathematics, logic, and computer science, which became important in the field, with congresses hold worldwide, to which Tomás is always invited.
Email: tomas@theory.stanford.edu
http://theory.stanford.edu/~tomas
https://wn.com/A_Practical_Computer_Program_That_Diagnoses_Diseases_In_Actu
Google Tech Talk
April 23, 2009
ABSTRACT
A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder.
Several so called "computer medical diagnosis programs" have been devised. We had a chance to review Internist, Quick Medical Reference (QMR), DXplain, Iliad, Gideon, Isabel, and others; some are no longer available. All this systems evoke a typically long differential diagnosis list, based on patient's symptoms, providing an excellent reminder of unusual diagnoses; however, they are unable to pinpoint the actual disease or diseases that indeed afflict a specific patient. Consequently, they are considered rather teaching or training tools for medical students or inexperienced physicians, as admitted by some of the program authors; for this reason and being quite time consuming to consult, these programs are poorly accepted and used by practicing health care providers. Our novel diagnostic system overcomes the drawbacks of existing programs, emulating as close as possible the natural reasoning of human clinicians. The core of our system is the novel mini-max procedure that computes the probability of each potential diagnosis more accurately than Bayes formula, Bayesian networks, and other similar methods; the system also diagnoses concurrent diseases that simultaneously afflict a single patient. Mini-max procedure enables to determine probabilistically and recommend at each diagnostic step the best cost-benefit clinical data next to investigate in a patient. This facilitates important overall cost saving-cost comprising expense, risk, and discomfort of obtaining clinical data-for patents and saving of available medical resources, by discouraging the ordering of futile tests or procedures. Our system is capable of diagnosing complex clinical presentations and precludes overlooking diagnoses associated with confirmed diagnoses. For all its virtues, our diagnostic system offers important socio-economic benefits that have the potential to change the way medicine will be practiced in the future; it is expected to provide invaluable benefits to patients, physicians, nurses, hospitals, health insurance companies, malpractice insurance companies and lawyers, and the entire medical establishment.
Presented by Carlos Feder
Carlos Feder was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In that country he practiced internal medicine for 30 years and at the same time taught this specialty at the University Hospital. For the past half century, his obsession to invent and improve an algorithm of computerizing medical diagnosis led him to review existing relevant literature, publish papers, and secure research grants from Roemmers pharmaceuticals. In 1983, he immigrated to Palo Alto, California, where he practiced his specialty for another 19 years before retiring in 2002. Since then he dedicated most of his time organizing his experience and novel ideas, and describing his medical diagnostic algorithm that promises to be a breakthrough in the field. Author of two books: Computerized Medical Diagnosis: a Novel Solution to an Old Problem (2006), and A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients (2008), coauthored with Tomás Feder. Email: caline@earthlink.net Tomas Feder
Tomás Feder, son of Carlos, was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained, with honors, his baccalaureate from the French School in the mentioned city. In 1983 he immigrated with his parents and sister to the United States, where he received his PHD in Computer Sciences from Stanford University. He was one of the outstanding students of his prestigious adviser Donald Knuth. Tomás worked for several years as a researcher at IBM. His curriculum includes over 120 publications, personal and with coauthors around the world. With Moshe Vardi as coauthor, they publish a landmark paper in 1993 (conference version) and in 1998 (journal version) that created a new specialty of Computer Sciences named Constraint Satisfaction, crossroads of mathematics, logic, and computer science, which became important in the field, with congresses hold worldwide, to which Tomás is always invited.
Email: tomas@theory.stanford.edu
http://theory.stanford.edu/~tomas
- published: 25 Apr 2009
- views: 10102
Target Selection in Parkinson's Disease: Where and Why - Zachery Levine, MD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:43
- Updated: 09 Sep 2016
- views: 106
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Seattle Science Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the international collaboration among physicians, ...
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Seattle Science Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the international collaboration among physicians, scientists, technologists, engineers and educators. The Foundation's training facilities and extensive internet connectivity have been designed to foster improvements in health care through professional medical education, training, creative dialogue and innovation.
NOTE: All archived recorded lectures are available for informational purposes only and are only eligible for self-claimed Category II credit. They are not intended to serve as, or be the basis of a medical opinion, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment for any particular patient.
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http://www.seattlesciencefoundation.org
Seattle Science Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the international collaboration among physicians, scientists, technologists, engineers and educators. The Foundation's training facilities and extensive internet connectivity have been designed to foster improvements in health care through professional medical education, training, creative dialogue and innovation.
NOTE: All archived recorded lectures are available for informational purposes only and are only eligible for self-claimed Category II credit. They are not intended to serve as, or be the basis of a medical opinion, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment for any particular patient.
- published: 09 Sep 2016
- views: 106
"Maternal Fetal Conflict: Ethical Issues in Pregnancy" by Dr. Christy Cummings for OPENPediatrics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:02
- Updated: 01 Jul 2016
- views: 725
Please visit: www.openpediatrics.org
OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children's Hosp...
Please visit: www.openpediatrics.org
OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user.
For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu
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Hello, my name is Dr. Christy Cummings, and I'm a Neonatologist and Ethicist with Boston Children's Hospital. And today I'll be speaking about maternal-fetal conflict. I have no conflicts of interest or disclosures. And the material presented today will be as evidence-based and bias-free as possible, and appropriately referenced. Today, the learning objectives will be as follows. We'll aim to distinguish between maternal-fetal conflict and maternal-fetal relationship within the context of the fetus as a patient, with the shared goal of optimizing health for both a pregnant woman and the fetus.
We'll demonstrate the application of various ethical frameworks to approach maternal-fetal conflicts, while recognizing the limitations and strengths of each. We'll recognize the limitations of the best interest analysis as applied to the fetus, including gender and racial bias. And we'll also describe the importance of autonomy, and respect for persons, and the right to informed refusal of treatment, specifically with respect to the pregnant woman in the setting of maternal-fetal conflict. Finally, we'll identify appropriate strategies to resolve conflicts while preserving the therapeutic physician-patient relationship in the setting of maternal-fetal conflict.
Case Study.
We'll start off with a case. This is Katie, a 22-year-old G1P0 woman. She has a history of intimate partner violence, substance use, depression, and intermittent homelessness. She's late to prenatal care with her first obstetric visit being late in her second trimester. She admits to using heroin and percocet regularly, as well as three to five alcoholic drinks per day, and half a pack of cigarettes per day. Her urine test is positive for heroin, opiates, and marijuana. An ultrasound is concerning for restricted fetal growth.
https://wn.com/Maternal_Fetal_Conflict_Ethical_Issues_In_Pregnancy_By_Dr._Christy_Cummings_For_Openpediatrics
Please visit: www.openpediatrics.org
OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user.
For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu
Please note: OPENPediatrics does not support nor control any related videos in the sidebar, these are placed by Youtube. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Hello, my name is Dr. Christy Cummings, and I'm a Neonatologist and Ethicist with Boston Children's Hospital. And today I'll be speaking about maternal-fetal conflict. I have no conflicts of interest or disclosures. And the material presented today will be as evidence-based and bias-free as possible, and appropriately referenced. Today, the learning objectives will be as follows. We'll aim to distinguish between maternal-fetal conflict and maternal-fetal relationship within the context of the fetus as a patient, with the shared goal of optimizing health for both a pregnant woman and the fetus.
We'll demonstrate the application of various ethical frameworks to approach maternal-fetal conflicts, while recognizing the limitations and strengths of each. We'll recognize the limitations of the best interest analysis as applied to the fetus, including gender and racial bias. And we'll also describe the importance of autonomy, and respect for persons, and the right to informed refusal of treatment, specifically with respect to the pregnant woman in the setting of maternal-fetal conflict. Finally, we'll identify appropriate strategies to resolve conflicts while preserving the therapeutic physician-patient relationship in the setting of maternal-fetal conflict.
Case Study.
We'll start off with a case. This is Katie, a 22-year-old G1P0 woman. She has a history of intimate partner violence, substance use, depression, and intermittent homelessness. She's late to prenatal care with her first obstetric visit being late in her second trimester. She admits to using heroin and percocet regularly, as well as three to five alcoholic drinks per day, and half a pack of cigarettes per day. Her urine test is positive for heroin, opiates, and marijuana. An ultrasound is concerning for restricted fetal growth.
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meani...
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
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Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to...
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Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
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Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustain...
published: 02 Jun 2015
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
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Futile interventions question medical system's focus
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over pa...
published: 05 Nov 2012
Futile interventions question medical system's focus
Futile interventions question medical system's focus
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Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in R...
published: 01 Jul 2014
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
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Medical Futility
futility
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01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift ...
published: 23 Aug 2016
Medical Futility
Medical Futility
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Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Ste...
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Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
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Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last ...
published: 12 May 2014
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
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Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives w...
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Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meani...
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What is FUTILE MEDICAL CARE? What does FUTILE MEDICAL CARE mean? FUTILE MEDICAL CARE meaning
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Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
David Kelly, PhD speaks at the Medical Ethics Conference about medical futility and how to...
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Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
Medical Futility: Who decides to stop treatment?
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49:13
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustain...
published: 02 Jun 2015
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
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Futile interventions question medical system's focus
Some families are asking whether our health system encourages medical intervention over pa...
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Futile interventions question medical system's focus
Futile interventions question medical system's focus
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4:37
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Dr. Keith Swetz, an assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at Mayo Clinic in R...
published: 01 Jul 2014
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
Ten Common Questions (and Their Answers) on Medical Futility
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Medical Futility
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01:29 - Autonomy and Legal Proceedings
01:45 - 1980s: Shift ...
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Medical Futility
Medical Futility
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Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
https://www.change.org/p/end-predatory-healthcare-pricing -- Tucker Carlson interviews Ste...
published: 23 Feb 2017
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
Ex-Hospital Chief says Health Care Fees are a Total Scam - Predatory Pricing
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0:41
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care
拒絕無效醫療公益廣告（英文版）
At the last ...
published: 12 May 2014
Public Service Advertisement of Refusing Futile Medical Care 拒絕無效醫療公益廣告
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Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
This is what all of euthanasia is about, the ability of the state to determine who lives w...
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Tx patient prays for life as hospital seeks to deny him treatment
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Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustain...
published: 02 Jun 2015
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
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Medical Futility Henry Silverman
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Medical Futility Henry Silverman
Medical Futility Henry Silverman
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Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU (Grand Rounds)
Emory Medicine Grand Rounds - 5/2/2017
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Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU (Grand Rounds)
Potentially Inappropriate Care in the ICU (Grand Rounds)
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2014 ICEL – Assoc Prof Thaddeus Pope: Medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment
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Associate Professor Thaddeus Pope from Hamline...
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2014 ICEL – Assoc Prof Thaddeus Pope: Medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment
2014 ICEL – Assoc Prof Thaddeus Pope: Medical futility conflicts over life-sustaining treatment
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Autonomy futility and medicine and Bouvia
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Autonomy futility and medicine and Bouvia
Autonomy futility and medicine and Bouvia
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SA STGEC G&G; GR: Medical Futility Ethics (2014)
November 13th, 2014 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine G...
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SA STGEC G&G; GR: Medical Futility Ethics (2014)
SA STGEC G&G; GR: Medical Futility Ethics (2014)
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Medical Futility: Legal Status Nationwide and in Minnesota, What Does the Future Hold? (2 of 2)
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Medical Futility: Legal Status Nationwide and in Minnesota, What Does the Future Hold? (2 of 2)
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A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu
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A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu
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Target Selection in Parkinson's Disease: Where and Why - Zachery Levine, MD
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"Maternal Fetal Conflict: Ethical Issues in Pregnancy" by Dr. Christy Cummings for OPENPediatrics
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