Total small bowel resection in a patient who refused surgery: why did the surgeon do it?†
Reynold Henry, Patrick McGillen, Wesley E Barry, Julie S Wecsler, Brandon Knight, Kazuhide Matsushima, Carin Van Zyl, Peter Crookes · 2024
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Description
A surgeon cut out a dying man's whole small bowel after the man had clearly refused surgery. Reynold Henry and co-authors lay out the case and its ethics, in work from twenty twenty-four. Years after stomach surgery, the man arrived with bowel trapped inside, a known late trap. He refused the fix. Once he sank into coma, the surgeon operated anyway.
Repeat surgery left nothing joining his throat to his gut. He woke enough to grasp his fate and lived some weeks. The report asks, in its very title, why the surgeon did it. Consent, coma, and the duty to save collide here with no clean answer.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Reynold Henry, Patrick McGillen, Wesley E Barry, Julie S Wecsler, Brandon Knight, Kazuhide Matsushima, Carin Van Zyl, Peter Crookes |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |