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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of DNR orders. Ethical and legal implications are explored. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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variety of concerns that can present obstacles to the basic task of "making sick people better". Chief among these are those areas where the health care field intersects with the
fields of law and ethics. Legal concerns often place a major restraint on the specific activities that doctors are able to perform in the service of a patients health, and
medical ethics dictates that there may be times in which a doctor must choose not to provide care for a person in order to fulfill certain ethical obligations. One issue
which provides an instructive example of such barriers is that of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. This paper will attempt to provide an overview of these orders and their legal and ethical
ramifications for health care professionals. This paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the DNR issue. In order to understand the significance of the DNR issue in the
health care field, it is important to first understand what DNR orders are, and how they came to be. It was roughly a quarter of a century ago that the
first DNR policies were instituted, primarily as a way to allow patients to provide a check on the amount of intrusive medical technology that doctors are allowed to use in
order to save their lives in critical situations (Puri, 2006). For example, suppose that a patient had been unconscious without oxygen for five or six minutes; while doctors might be
able to successfully revive such a patient under the right circumstances, the chances are great that that patient would suffer catastrophic brain damage and likely need to exist on a
ventilator for the rest of their life. Many people find the notion of such a fate undignified, and thusly would prefer that doctors do not take steps to resuscitate them
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