{"id":985,"date":"2007-07-19T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/when_to_let_go_medicines_top_dilemma\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:11:00","slug":"when_to_let_go_medicines_top_dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"When to let go? Medicine&#39;s top dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters:<\/p>\n<p>A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.<\/p>\n<p>End-of-life issues top the list of ethical dilemmas hospitals face as medical progress enables doctors to extend an endangered life to the hard-to-determine point where they may actually only be dragging out death.<\/p>\n<p>Private dramas like these play out in hospitals every day, rarely hitting the headlines as did the family feud over ending life support for Terri Schiavo in the United States in 2005 or a British couple&#8217;s fight to save their severely handicapped baby Charlotte Wyatt in 2003 when doctors wanted to give up on her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?alias=when-to-let-go-medicines&#038;chanId=sa003&#038;modsrc=reuters\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters: A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive. End-of-life issues top the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=985\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,168,104,96,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}