Ethical Dilemma Case Analysis

Ndiyob Ethical/Legal Case Analysis (Group Assignment)
Read the Houston Chronicle articles about Joseph Ndiyob:

• Life-and-death matter goes to court, A test of doctor’s morals (Download: Life-and-death matter goes to court, A test of doctor’s morals)
  
• Cleric’s help asked in life-support case
  
• Comatose man dies after battle over life support
  

Review the required module readings and consider both the ethical and legal issues in this case.

Imagine you are a review board evaluating the hospital ethics committee’s decision. Use the attached table (Download: attached table) as your template to organize your analysis. Only submit the completed table. Keep your summary complete but concise, using the Clinical Ethics Model (The Four Topic Chart) (Download: Clinical Ethics Model (The Four Topic Chart) – Jonsen et al.).

One group member should upload a Word document that includes:

• The completed table
  
• The names of all group members
  
• Each member’s role in the assignment

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