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A mother inadvertently gave her young daughter expired insulin and told the Emergency Department physicians only that her daughter was experiencing flu-like symptoms. She refused to allow her daughter to be removed from life support even after she was declared brain dead, and threatened the hospital with a lawsuit for failing to accurately diagnose her daughter’s condition in a timely way.
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Roscoe, L.A., Schenck, D.P. (2017). Case 6—What Is the Standard of Care for a Corpse?. In: Communication and Bioethics at the End of Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70920-8_6
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