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31. Case: Stakeholders’ Role in Decision-Making
View Case: 31. Case: Stakeholders’ Role in Decision-MakingThis case concerns parental involvement in decision-making related to maintaining a residential facility for adolescent patients. Due to a lack of sustainable funding, in consultation with the operations team, the…
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30. Case: Awards – Who Gets Them and Why?
View Case: 30. Case: Awards – Who Gets Them and Why?This case involves an organizational concern about inconsistency in the approach to applying for, being nominated for, and receiving awards. Specifically, the requestor identified that there wasn’t a process or…
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29. Case: Complicated Caring
View Case: 29. Case: Complicated CaringMr. Sundown is a 78-year old African Nova Scotian who is a patient in an internal medicine clinical unit at the Halifax Infirmary. He has a variety of serious medical…
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28. Case: Mind the Gap!
View Case: 28. Case: Mind the Gap!Mrs. Hardriver is admitted through ER to a general surgery unit for emergency surgical management of an acute small bowel obstruction secondary to her advanced colorectal cancer. After surgery, Palliative…
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24. Case: Changing Care and Care-Giving
View Case: 24. Case: Changing Care and Care-GivingKevin Henderson is an 83-year old man who is hospitalized in an internal medicine clinical unit at the local hospital. Kevin has a variety of serious medical conditions including severe…
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22. Case: Double Effect?
View Case: 22. Case: Double Effect?The following call comes in to the ethics line: “Hi. It’s Celine from Oncology. We have a patient here who is in the end stages of lung cancer and is…
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21. Case: Balancing Concerns
View Case: 21. Case: Balancing Concerns“Where’s the door to my bathroom? Can’t a man get some privacy?” “Uh oh, that’s Elias again. We’d better make sure he’s alright.” “How many times are we going to…
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20. Case: To Treat or Not to Treat
View Case: 20. Case: To Treat or Not to TreatStan Miller, a retired widower, sustains severe burns covering 80% of his body surface in a house fire secondary to a propane gas leak. He is initially assessed in the…
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19. Case: Craig’s Right to Choose?
View Case: 19. Case: Craig’s Right to Choose?Craig Renaldo is a 14-year old boy who was recently diagnosed with a right lower leg malignant vascular tumour. Staging investigations have been negative for distant metastases. Craig’s attending medical…
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18. Case: When the “Truth” is Painful
View Case: 18. Case: When the “Truth” is PainfulMrs. Sally Parrot, a 73-year old widow, has mild dementia of a presumed neurovascular type. She resides in her own small apartment in Serenity, a private continuing care community in…
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