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Martha Lauravill Case Summary
In choose Martha Lauravill case. In this case, there was a decision making problems between Martha daughters Nadej who is Nurse and Shirley who is physicians. In case Nadej doesn’t wants Martha on life supports because of her quality of life and benefit after all this procedure. On the other hand, Shirley who is a physician wants to be Martha on life support and get care till to the last minutes. In this case, Martha families and her doctors had conversations on Martha treatment to stop or not. During this conversation, Martha families were asking the doctors the advantage and disadvantage of remove her from breathing vent and trach. In this situation, the doctors did great job discussion with family member openly and clearly as well as provide

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