"We have nothing left to bury."

Autor: Brummett A, Thornton A, Salter EK, Deters S
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Hastings Center report [Hastings Cent Rep] 2022 Jan; Vol. 52 (1), pp. 12-14.
DOI: 10.1002/hast.1335
Abstrakt: After miscarrying in the hospital at eleven weeks, a patient gratefully accepts the hospital's offer to take advantage of a program for low-income patients that provides burial for fetal remains and a memorial plaque for the gravesite. However, a hospital employee accidentally incinerates the remains, and the error is not discovered until after the ashes are discarded. Two commentaries offer opposing arguments in response to the question whether, to avoid adding to the patient's grief, it is ethically permissible for the clinicians not to disclose the error to her and to proceed with having the name put on a plaque at the burial ground.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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