crime of compassion
A Crime of Compassion
A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttmann is a story between a nurse and the patient’s wishes to die. The story is about Mac who was a cop that came into the hospital complaining about a cough that seems hard to get rid of. Later test confirmed that he had lung cancer that leads him to be confinement to the hospital. After six months, he lost his hair, bone and youth. Due to his condition, It was normal for Mac to trigger a code blue which announce a patient life is threaten at least once a day. The story also tells about the pain and his wish to die. Unfortunately, his doctor believes that life should be prolonging regardless of the patient’s wishes. One day, when Barbara was bathing Mac and later giving pain medication. She heard Mac moaned “Pain …. No more... Barbara… do something…. God, let me go”. That was when Barbara decided to grant his wishes and let Mac dies.
Respond:
Huttmann was motivated to do what she did due to her realization that we don’t have the right to prolong the patient’s pain regardless of what means we have to prolong life. A Crime of Compassion
A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttmann is a story between a nurse and the patient’s wishes to die. The story is about Mac who was a cop that came into the hospital complaining about a cough that seems hard to get rid of. Later test confirmed that he had lung cancer that leads him to be confinement to the hospital. After six months, he lost his hair, bone and youth. Due to his condition, It was normal for Mac to trigger a code blue which announce a patient life is threaten at least once a day. The story also tells about the pain and his wish to die. Unfortunately, his doctor believes that life should be prolonging regardless of the patient’s wishes. One day, when Barbara was bathing Mac and later giving pain medication. She heard Mac moaned “Pain …. No more... Barbara… do something…. God, let me go”. That was when Barbara decided to grant his wishes and let Mac dies.
A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttmann is a story between a nurse and the patient’s wishes to die. The story is about Mac who was a cop that came into the hospital complaining about a cough that seems hard to get rid of. Later test confirmed that he had lung cancer that leads him to be confinement to the hospital. After six months, he lost his hair, bone and youth. Due to his condition, It was normal for Mac to trigger a code blue which announce a patient life is threaten at least once a day. The story also tells about the pain and his wish to die. Unfortunately, his doctor believes that life should be prolonging regardless of the patient’s wishes. One day, when Barbara was bathing Mac and later giving pain medication. She heard Mac moaned “Pain …. No more... Barbara… do something…. God, let me go”. That was when Barbara decided to grant his wishes and let Mac dies.
Respond:
Huttmann was motivated to do what she did due to her realization that we don’t have the right to prolong the patient’s pain regardless of what means we have to prolong life. A Crime of Compassion
A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttmann is a story between a nurse and the patient’s wishes to die. The story is about Mac who was a cop that came into the hospital complaining about a cough that seems hard to get rid of. Later test confirmed that he had lung cancer that leads him to be confinement to the hospital. After six months, he lost his hair, bone and youth. Due to his condition, It was normal for Mac to trigger a code blue which announce a patient life is threaten at least once a day. The story also tells about the pain and his wish to die. Unfortunately, his doctor believes that life should be prolonging regardless of the patient’s wishes. One day, when Barbara was bathing Mac and later giving pain medication. She heard Mac moaned “Pain …. No more... Barbara… do something…. God, let me go”. That was when Barbara decided to grant his wishes and let Mac dies.