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HOW OLD IS TOO OLD?
How old is too old?
How sick is too sick?
(How young is too young?)
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Daniel Callahan
“The very quest to overcome our biological limits is destructive of health care systems.”
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Why We Talk About This
• Nearly 30% of Medicare spendingis in the last year of life
• Over 10% of Medicare spendingis in the last 2 months of life
• Medicare will be insolvent in X years
• ~65% of health consumption is by 20% of people, viz. the elderly
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Rationing Medical Care
• Already occurring
• Directly: denial or restriction of services
• Indirectly: financial tactics to influence behaviors (co-pays, deductibles)
• Covertly: unwritten agreements(e.g. Brits NHS post-WWII)
-Daniel Callahan
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Core Ethical Principles: a primer
• Beneficence
• Non-maleficence
• Justice
• Autonomy
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Beneficence
• Roots in the Hippocratic Oath
• Foster patient well-being
• Moral obligation to promote goodness
• Reduce pain and suffering
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Non-maleficence
• Ethical obligation not to harm
• Embedded in the Hippocratic doctrine:
“primum non nocere”
• More strict requirement than beneficence
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Justice
• Personal: respect and fairness
• Social justice (common good): - access - resource allocation - dovetails with medical futility
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Autonomy
• Capacity • Substituted judgment
• Informed consent • Best interest argument
• Self-determination • Paternalism
• Surrogate decisions • Resuscitation status
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Positive and Negative Rights
• “Negative” right: legitimate- Choose among, or refuse, procedures- Based on autonomy, informed consent- Supported by constitutional rights:
privacy, liberty- Common law protection against battery
• “Positive” right: not legitimate- To demand a treatment- Limited by clinical judgment
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Palliative Care
• Procedures that are not desired “as life prolonging procedures” are all permissible if used for proper palliative purposes.
• “There is no realistic hope of significant recovery”--intended to allow a rational flexibility
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DNR in the Operating Room
Can a patient with an
active
DNR have surgery?
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• Full resuscitation
• Limited resuscitation: procedure-directed
• Limited: goal-directed #1(temporary & reversible events)
• Limited: goal-directed #2(statement of patient desires)
DNR in the OR: ASA Guidelines
Goal-directed approach:Prioritize outcomes, not procedures
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Sociology and Ethics
• Health care providers are human beings
• Patients and families are human beings
• Societies are imperfect and unpredictable
• Health care occurs in a society
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Conclusion: Rationing
• It already is here
• A sociopolitical issue
• Physicians’ obligations are to provide care
• Policy decisions cannot be made by individuals- Too much variability- Physician biases- Not enough transparency
• Policy must be fair, reasoned and compelling
• There must be an appeals process