BioEthicsTV: A night of consent issues on ChicagoMed

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. On this week’s episode of ChicagoMed (Season 1; Episode 15) issues of consent was the main focus. The first major storyline concerned a 16-year-old in abdominal pain who enters the ED with her father, a heroin addict. Although in pain and in need of a diagnostic endoscopy, the patient refuses any and all medications: She fears that even one dose will turn her into the addict that her father has been for her entire life. The doctors try the endoscopy without anesthetic or pain medications and they are unable to get through the procedure.…
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