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The patient was a 25-year-old woman admitted to the hospital from hospice care with end-stage cardiomyopathy. She had an advance directive which specified a limited trial of ventilator support, which the patient’s schizophrenic mother successfully contested in court.
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Roscoe, L.A., Schenck, D.P. (2017). Case 9—When Parents Contest an Adult Child’s Advance Directive. In: Communication and Bioethics at the End of Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70920-8_9
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