terri schiavo a tragedy compounded A summary of the case Why did Michael Schiavo win the malpractice case against Terri Schiavo’s obstetrician? What was the amount of the award received by Michael Schiavo? How long did Michael Schiavo try to rehabilitate Terri Schiavo before he sought a court order to remove her feeding tube? How long was Terri Schiavo in a coma before a court allowed her feeding tube to be removed? Did Michael Schiavo meet the standard of clear and convincing evidence for removal of Terri’s feeding tube? Why didn’t Michael Schiavo turn the case over to her parents and let them take care of her, as they volunteered to do? What claims did Terri Schiavo’s autopsy put to rest? What surprises did it reveal? The ethical issues related to the case “PVS is the same as brain death.” Criticize. Differentiate these standards of brain death: Harvard, cognitive, and irreversible. How do “brain-death” and “life-support” mislead the public? What are better expressions? What are the chances of awakening from PVS after three years? Differentiate between comas caused by trauma versus those caused by anoxia. What controversy exists about minimally conscious state? How can a patient in a minimally conscious state be differentiated from a patient in PVS? What is at stake here? How might consciousness, like personhood, be a gradient, not all-or-nothing? What was the case about of Jahi McMath? How did it end? What was the case about of Rom Houben? Implications for current day health care issues How did Pope John Paul II cause controversy in Catholic hospitals by his remarks on withdrawing feeding tubes for PVS patients? What has happened since that controversy? Why was it a new claim by disability advocates to say that Terri Schiavo was covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? How did the Wanglie and Gilgunn cases involve medical futility? Is medical futility a solely factual concept? What is the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary treatment in medical ethics? Why does the distinction tend to be a line in the sand? What misconceptions exist about feeding tubes? How has the distinction between withdrawing and forgoing treatment been important in medicine over the last 40 years? What important requirement did the Health Care Financing Administration pass in 1991? In 1986, what was the AMA’s position on the ethics of withdrawing respirators? How did the Schiavo case, along with the cloning of the lamb Dolly, politicize bioethics in America? Why does withdrawing a respirator or feeding tube from a vegetative patient feel to the physician or nurse like killing the patient? How is the doctrine of substituted judgment vague in making decisions for incompetent patients? Assure to discuss positive as well negative of the issue