{"id":2039,"date":"2017-04-12T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:24:43","slug":"nyt-features-professor-pope-in-story-on-unwanted-resuscitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/2017\/04\/12\/nyt-features-professor-pope-in-story-on-unwanted-resuscitation\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT features Professor Pope in story on unwanted resuscitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times turned to Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, director of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s Health Law Institute, in its recent reporting on end-of-life issues. The story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/10\/health\/wrongful-life-lawsuit-dnr.html?_r=1\"><em>The Patients Were <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/biographies\/person\/thaddeus-pope\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2041\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus-214x300-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pope_Thaddeus-214x300\" width=\"114\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Saved. That\u2019s Why the Families Are Suing<\/em><\/a>.\u201d appeared in the newspaper\u2019s\u00a0April 10 edition.<\/p>\n<p>Pope is one of the nation\u2019s foremost authorities\u00a0on medical decision-making and end-of-life patient rights. The Times took note of a trend Pope has written about in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clinicalethics.com\/TPope.html\">The Journal of Clinical Ethics<\/a>\u2014doctors and hospitals are increasingly facing penalties and lawsuits for ignoring patients\u2019 advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Physicians and hospitals have grown accustomed to the threat of lawsuits when they fail to save a patient\u2019s life. Now, some face legal action for failing to let a patient die. Several similar lawsuits around the country say that health care providers disregarded or overrode advance directives, resuscitating people whose instructions clearly said not to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pope told the New York Times that courts are beginning to pay closer attention to end-of-life decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Courts increasingly accept that unwanted life is also a harm. Families were showing up at plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys offices in the past and getting turned away. Now, plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys are taking these cases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Professor Pope writes about end-of-life issues on his <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalfutility.blogspot.com\/\">Medical Futility Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times turned to Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, director of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s Health Law Institute, in its recent reporting on end-of-life issues. The story \u201cThe Patients Were Saved. That\u2019s Why the Families Are Suing.\u201d appeared in the newspaper\u2019s\u00a0April 10 edition. Pope is one of the nation\u2019s foremost authorities\u00a0on medical decision-making and end-of-life patient &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/2017\/04\/12\/nyt-features-professor-pope-in-story-on-unwanted-resuscitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">NYT features Professor Pope in story on unwanted resuscitation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-and-events","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}