A firm believer in professional responsibility, Furnell was in deep water from the first day he took over as sanitary commissioner of Madras and its 30 million inhabitants in May 1880.
This image depicts a dying elder undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, suggesting consideration of the ethical weight of the invasiveness and force of chest compressions.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(8):E774-775. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.774.
Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(8):E778-779. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.778.