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All statements about Best interests

17 statements about Best interests in 4 sources, by upload date.

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2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Charlotte and Molly call "passive euthanasia", meaning withdrawing or withholding treatment so that someone dies, an unhelpful term: euthanasia is illegal, while withdrawing treatment in a patient's best interests is good clinical practice. — 00:05:00
  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali says withdrawing treatment means judging that the particular treatment, not continuing to live, is no longer in the patient's best interests, even if the patient will probably die. — 00:07:36
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi 5A9Ae87434: Abi says an American doctor offered Charlie Gard an experimental treatment; his parents wanted to fly him to the US, Great Ormond Street Hospital said this was not in his best interests, and a court battle followed. — 00:00:58
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Charlie Gard case hinged on his best interests: Great Ormond Street Hospital, backed by many experts, held that continued or experimental treatment was not in them, while his parents wanted to give him a chance. — 00:01:58
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says Charlie Gard's parents wanted continued and experimental treatment while the hospital thought it futile, so the courts were brought in as an independent body to hear both sides and decide his best interests. — 00:05:41
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the judge agreed with Great Ormond Street's experts that the evidence was not there, so the best-interests decision was against the experimental treatment and for withdrawing Charlie Gard's life support, as each day meant suffering. — 00:07:29
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the parents' wishes do not automatically trump medical opinion: it is about the child's best interests, doctors must take the parents' view into account, and if they disagree an independent court decides. — 00:11:20
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali reads Great Ormond Street Hospital's statement saying that since the first hearing in March 2017 it held every day was not in Charlie Gard's best interests, that two international experts believed they elicited a pain response, and that his relationship with the world had been one of suffering. — 00:15:43
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says Great Ormond Street Hospital agreed it would have provided the treatment regardless of cost had it thought it in Charlie Gard's best interests. — 00:18:32
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says it was not that continuing to live was against Charlie Gard's best interests, but that the specific treatments, the experimental therapy and mechanical ventilation, were. — 00:22:14
  • 2018-02-24 · Breaking Bad News / Death & Dying - Cambridge medical student VLOG #25 — Ali explains that whether to attempt CPR is technically a medical decision a patient cannot demand, yet doctors discuss it, explaining the patient's best interests and weighing patient's and family's views. — 00:05:15

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