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Ethics and Legal - In re Estate of Dorone
In re Estate of Dorone.
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.
KIE: The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a court could permit the administration of blood transfusions to an uncounscious adult patient, over parental objection, if the patient's life was in danger. While Darrell Dorone was unconscious following an automobile accident, physicians performed two operations. In both instances, Dorone's parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, withheld consent to transfusions on religious grounds. After phone hearings in which the parents did not testify but their objections were presented, a lower court appointed the hospital's administrator as Dorone's temporary guardian, who consented to the transfusions. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that under the circumstances, the failure to take direct testimony from the parents did not constitute judicial error. Given the exigencies of both operations, nothing less than a fully conscious, contemporaneous decision by the patient could override medical necessity.
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