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- Title: Learning from Lingering Angst (In Practice) (Column)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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I am leading a debriefing session--the second part of a three-part model we have started for ethics consultations at our rehabilitation hospital. The debriefing is loosely organized. We begin with follow-up from a recent ethics consultation. For some team members, this is a time to learn how ethics was involved and how things got resolved. I then ask for their responses to the case: what went right, what went wrong. One team member remarks, "I was angry at Maria's daughter. She never let anyone get a word in edgewise, including her mother." Another says, "I was emotionally exhausted. Her daughter was manipulative. She was good at splitting the team and playing us against each other." Respecting the patient's autonomy was impossible, one notes, because she was never allowed to interact independently with her care team. Another responds that he felt frustrated that the patient never asked her daughter to step out of the room. Several say that when they asked the daughter to leave, she refused. Some report avoiding the patient except when they had to treat her.