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A Hospital Resuscitated Her, and Now She's Suing

A Hospital Ignored
Her Purple Bracelet.
Now She's Suing

A Hospital Ignored Her Purple Bracelet. Now She's Suing

Jamie Sams says she made her DNR wishes clear

(Newser) - Jamie Sams is alive, and she's suing over that fact. The Albuquerque Journal reports the New Mexico woman has sued Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center over what she alleges were two acts of negligence that occurred at the Santa Fe hospital in 2016. Per the suit, Sams went...

Doctors Vexed by Patient's
Highly Unusual Tattoo

Dec 1, 2017 4:32 PM CST

Doctors Vexed by Patient's Highly Unusual Tattoo

'Do Not Resuscitate,' the man's chest read

(Newser) - “We’ve always joked about this, but holy crap, this man actually did it,” Florida physician Gregory Holt tells the Atlantic . Holt and a team of emergency room doctors were preparing to treat a 70-year-old man who was brought into Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital unconscious, with...

Mom Fights School
Over Her Son's
Right to Die There

Nov 3, 2015 6:45 PM CST

Mom Fights School Over Her Son's Right to Die There

He's terminally ill, and she doesn't want him revived

(Newser) - A mother is locked in a battle with an Alabama school district over whether her son should be allowed to die at school. Rene Hoover's 14-year-old son, Alex, has a terminal heart condition that has narrowed his mitral valve. The AP reports that has hampered his blood flow, a...

Sometimes, Resuscitating
the Elderly Is Just Cruel

OPINION

Apr 16, 2013 12:34 PM CDT

Sometimes, Resuscitating the Elderly Is Just Cruel

Doctor: Patients, families need to have conversation beforehand

(Newser) - Last week, a British doctor made headlines for his belief that hospitals give up too early on way too many patients declared dead. Now, another is arguing in the Daily Mail that he sees too many elderly people being resuscitated when it makes little sense to do so, all because...