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    On the other hand, with the baby girl’s case, the mother ultimately chose assisted suicide as she wished to stop nourishment and refused permission for surgery. The issue here violates the Baby Doe Law, which regardless of the parents’ wishes, sets specific guidelines for treatment of disabled newborns. Since the baby is not competent due to her age, the issue of informed consent is hard to deal with. This also deals with the issue of deciding for others because the mother must give informed consent

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    family is preparing to welcome a beautiful baby boy into the world. It is an exciting, joyful, and nerve wracking experience as the parents enter the hospital. Everyone is hoping for the best and praying that everything will go perfectly. After hours of labor, the child is born, however, something is wrong. The care providers are rushing around and blocking the view of the baby until a doctor comes in to explain that your baby’s life is in danger. The baby is severely disabled and needs extensive medical

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    The federal ”Baby Doe” rule was the first effort made by the US government to get involved in the treatment options for newborns born with serious congenital defects. The case started in 1982 in Bloomington, Indiana in concerns to an infant baby who went by the name of Doe. The topic of impaired infants born with severe congenital defects gained national attention in April of 1982 when baby Doe was born. Baby Doe was born with Down Syndrome a genetic condition that delays child development and he

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    April 9, 1982, an unidentified infant known as Baby Doe was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Sadly, not even a week old, Baby Doe died an unfair death making an impact on the medical field forever. This case has changed the way medical professionals are judged, seen, and taught, with new laws being created and existing laws being reinforced for infants and children with disabilities. The Baby Doe case really impacted everyone who heard the story because it is very emotionally mixed with many controversies

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    Summary: “The Stormy Legacy of Baby Doe,” discusses the issues Baby Doe suffered from and some of the outcomes of the Baby Doe Amendment. Baby Doe had both down syndrome and esophageal atresia. Down syndrome is a genetic abnormality in which there are three chromosomes of a specific chromosome instead of two. It can increase the risk of many health problems such as heart defects, higher chances of infection, respiratory problems, obstructed digestive system, and leukemia. It also causes the individual

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    emotionally ready to have a child. Doe vs Bolton is a court case that overturned abortion in Georgia. Mrs. Doe was 9 weeks pregnant when she filed a suit after being denied. Doe had three living children, her two older kids were placed in foster homes because of her poverty and the inability to take care of them. Her youngest child was then placed up for adoption. Her husband had recently left her and she was forced to live with her poor parents and their eight children. Doe claimed she should be allowed

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    many cases prior to the 1982 Baby Doe case in Bloomington, Indiana that actually led to action being taken. This was the main case that led to the Baby Doe rules. In these cases, parents were refusing surgery that was set to correct the birth defect that babies were being born with. Refusing these medical treatments was causing the babies to die because they were being prevented from receiving the proper nutrition and hydration needed. The case that set the Baby Doe rules was in Bloomington, Indiana

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    Assignment 3 The Baby Doe Rules of 1984 was the first time in American history that the government had directly intervened in the medical treatment of infants that were born with severe birth defects. In 1982 in Indiana there was a case of an infant that had been born with spina bifida. The baby had been born with a detached esophagus but with surgery the anomaly would have been corrected and the baby would have survived. Without the necessary medical intervention, the baby would have died. The mother’s

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    Baby Boy Doe Baby Boy Doe is an example of ethical and moral dilemmas we as healthcare managers will face in our career. Every case may not be as severe or the consequences as detrimental, but daily we will be faced with making decisions that could change the very course of other people’s lives. The case of Baby Boy Doe is an ethical dilemma because it’s an occurrence where “decision makers are drawn in two directions by competing course of acting that are based of differing moral frameworks, varying

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    informative model is very stern. It leaves out emotions and only focuses on the facts. This would not be the best relationship for the Dawson case because his life altering condition requires more attention than an informative relationship can give. For the baby girl’s case, an informative relationship was likely established. This leaves the mother with information not attached to emotion so she was able to make her decision to stop nourishment without feeling the guilt of losing her child. With the interpretive

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