Category: Ethics Casebook-Themes

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Case: Mrs Kwok Ethics Casebook-Themes

Truth-telling

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Truth-telling

Family requests to withhold the truth from patient

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Case: Ms Ng Ethics Casebook-Themes

Traditional Chinese medicine

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Traditional Chinese medicine

Opting for Chinese over Western medicine

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Case: Mr Cheung Case: Mr Tse Case: Mrs Tsang Ethics Casebook-Themes

Substituted judgement

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Substituted judgment

Filial piety in end of life care decisions

Mentally Incapable of Making End of Life Care Decisions

Continuation of Dialysis Therapy

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Case: Mr Chan Case: Mr Ip Case: Mr Tse Case: Mrs Yeung Ethics Casebook-Themes

Nutrition and hydration

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Nutrition and hydration

Feeding tube decision in a dying demented patient

Withholding antibiotics at the end of life

Challenges in careful hand feeding

Mentally Incapable of Making End of Life Care Decisions

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Case: Mrs Yeung Ethics Casebook-Themes

Nursing home

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Nursing home

Challenges in careful hand feeding

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Case: Mr Chau Case: Mr Lau Case: Ms Ng Ethics Casebook-Themes

Moral distress

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Moral distress

Conflict between team members

Disagreements over timing for advance care planning

Opting for Chinese over Western medicine

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Case: Mr Chan Case: Mr Chau Case: Mr Ip Case: Mr Lau Case: Mrs Leung Case: Mrs Tsang Case: Mrs Wong Ethics Casebook-Themes

Life-sustaining treatment

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Life-sustaining treatment

Conflict between team members

Feeding tube decision in a dying demented patient

ICU triage for patient with advanced cancer

Disagreements over timing for advance care planning

Withholding antibiotics at the end of life

Filial piety in end of life care decisions

Miscommunication with family in advance care planning

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Case: Mr Lau Case: Mrs Kwok Ethics Casebook-Themes

Informed consent

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Informed consent

Conflict between team members

Family requests to withhold the truth from patient

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Case: Mrs Wong Ethics Casebook-Themes

ICU triage

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

ICU triage

ICU triage for patient with advanced cancer

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Case: Mrs Leung Ethics Casebook-Themes

Heart failure in end of life care

Introduction
Backgrounders
Themes

Heart failure in end of life care

Miscommunication with family in advance care planning