Tattoos have expressed many things over the centuries from fearsome and ritual identification to to lover of mother. Many were the result of poor judgement from intoxication and others by a strange desire for masochistic pain with visible proof. Many women today treat their skin as a permanent canvas. Now we have a tattoo that has taken on the status of a quasi-legal document. What is society to do wit this new dilemma? m/r
Doctors faced ethical, medical conundrums
By
AJ WILLINGHAM
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CNN Posted: December 01, 2017
(CNN) - Picture this: A man is admitted to the
hospital, unconscious, with a history of serious health problems and a
high blood alcohol level. He has no identification and no family with
him. On his chest, he has a tattoo:
"Do Not Resuscitate."
What would you do?
It sounds like a worst-case-scenario question from a medical ethics
course, but it really happened recently at a Florida hospital. A
newly published study in The New England Journal of Medicine
explored the ethical and medical conundrums the staff faced when
presented with a 70-year-old patient whose denial of potentially
life-saving treatment was right there on his skin.
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