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A 70-year-old man with an unusual chest tattoo caused doctors to call for the assistance of ethics consultants:
Emergency medicine doctors in Florida struggled to figure out how to respectfully care for an unconscious 70-year-old man with a chest tattoo that read "Do Not Resuscitate" followed by what appeared to be his signature. In a case report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors recounted:
This patient's tattooed DNR request produced more confusion than clarity, given concerns about its legality and likely unfounded beliefs that tattoos might represent permanent reminders of regretted decisions made while the person was intoxicated.
The unresponsive patient was brought to the emergency department by paramedics. He had high blood-alcohol levels and no identification or family with him. After a few hours, hospital staff saw his condition slipping. His blood pressure dropped and acids were building up in his blood. Despite the prominent tattoo, the doctors didn't know if they should trust it. They contacted social workers to try to find his next of kin and made several attempts to revive him enough to get him to confirm his wishes. But the revival attempts failed.
The consultants advised that the tattoo be treated as an authentic preference, and a Do not resuscitate order was written. Later on, the patient's official out-of-hospital DNR order was found, and it matched the preference expressed by the tattoo. The patient ended up dying later that night.
Let this be a lesson to you: Don't get an ironic "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo.
An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo (open, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1713344) (DX) (PDF)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @04:55PM (5 children)
If 3 people want to eat the cake just divide the cake equally into three (assuming they all want an equal portion).
It may be too complicated for the stupid gun crazy muricans, but not everyone in the world is that retarded.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday December 04 2017, @05:58PM
You simply don't have the kind of leadership that the US has managed to achieve.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 04 2017, @06:27PM (3 children)
So, you're freaking GENIUSES in some respects. But, you're retarded in other ways. Which parts of the world were it, that trapped itself into a spider web of conflicting treaties, and started World War One? Fekkin' retards. The only reason we even bothered to help you out, TWICE, was so we could steal your women. We just aren't into necrophilia . . .
(Score: 3, Touché) by Virindi on Monday December 04 2017, @06:39PM (2 children)
Since that occurred most likely before anyone here was born, and it was certainly in no way orchestrated by anyone currently alive, it seems like a poor example.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 04 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)
I don't see how it's a poor example. Half of today's Europeans think they are master statesmen, just like they did in 1900. And, half of Americans are determined to preserve their second amendment right, just like they were in 1900. The nuts and the acorns don't fall far from the trees. (For clarification, Euros are the nuts, we're the acorns - and the squirrels love us all.)
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday December 04 2017, @10:42PM
California has lots of nuts, though.
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