Law &. Ethics for Medical Careers 5th Edition by Karen Judson,Carlene Harrison

Exercise 70

Health care practitioners are ethically bound to respond to the needs of the patient at the end of life, but they are also ethically bound to preserve a patient's autonomy whenever possible.
A mentally competent, elderly patient suffering from congestive heart failure presents a DNR order when admitted to the hospital. He also talks with his attending physician about his end-of-life care, asking for comfort care only. The physician concurs and records the patient's wishes on his chart. The patient's daughter arrives from out of state and loudly overrides her father's wishes. As a member of the man's health care team, what do you and others on the team do?
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