<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><rec-number>8382</rec-number><ref-type>Case Study </ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robert Ladenson</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Using Expensive Treatments When a Patient Has Refused a Blood Transfusion</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BIOETHICS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MEDICINE</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">professional responsibility</style></keyword></keywords><taxonomies><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Professional Responsibility</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bioethics</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medicine</style></taxonomy></taxonomies><pubtype><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case Study </style></pubtype><audience-level><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ug</style></audience-level><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/1996</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Expensive%20Treatment%20.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">When a patient who is a Jehovah's Witness must go in for immediate surgery, she refuses to have blood transfusion as this treatment goes against her religious beliefs. Instead, the physicians adopted a radical and expensive treatment and saved her life. Is a hospital morally obligated to authorize attempting to save a patient's life by adopting a strategy involving enormous expense when a patient has indicated a refusal to be transfused.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case study from the February 3, 1996 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Copyright, Robert Ladenson, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1996.</style></notes></record></records></xml>