{"id":11891,"date":"2017-04-11T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:57:05","slug":"nyt-features-professor-pope-in-story-on-unwanted-resuscitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/nyt-features-professor-pope-in-story-on-unwanted-resuscitation\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT features Professor Pope in story on unwanted resuscitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893 alignright\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pope_Thaddeus\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/Pope_Thaddeus.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>The New York Times turned to Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, director of Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Health Law Institute, in its recent reporting on end-of-life issues. The story &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/10\/health\/wrongful-life-lawsuit-dnr.html?_r=1\"><em>The Patients Were Saved. That\u2019s Why the Families Are Suing<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; appeared in the newspaper&#8217;s\u00a0April 10 edition.<\/p>\n<p>Pope is one of the nation&#8217;s 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&#8217; 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&#8217;s Health Law Institute, in its recent reporting on end-of-life issues. The story &#8220;The Patients Were Saved. That\u2019s Why the Families Are Suing.&#8221; appeared in the newspaper&#8217;s\u00a0April 10 edition. Pope is one of the nation&#8217;s foremost authorities\u00a0on medical decision-making and end-of-life patient &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/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":4909,"featured_media":11912,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}