Provide your analysis of the case from the lens of ethical and moral principles. Responses to your group members’ posts will prompt further examination of the case.
These cases put a spotlight on issues of disability, informed consent, and family, including the different ways individuals, even within the same family, assess what makes a life worth living. Other issues that emerge are medical discrimination that allegedly led to the death of their loved ones. There are several articles to guide your reading and videos for added insight into these two cases.
Readings:
As you read the assigned ethical/moral dilemma case for your group:
Group 2
‘It’s Genocide’: Family Alleges Ominous Conclusion in Seeking Answers to Their Daughter’s Death Download ‘It’s Genocide’: Family Alleges Ominous Conclusion in Seeking Answers to Their Daughter’s Death
Scott Schara: Pfizer Drugs & Medical Malpractice Killed His Daughter Grace EditDownload Scott Schara: Pfizer Drugs & Medical Malpractice Killed His Daughter Grace
Our Amazing Grace (Links to an external site.) Our Amazing Grace: News Release – World Wide Genocide
Grace Schara—an inquisitive young woman with Down-Syndrome—died a tragic and preventable death at a Wisconsin hospital. Rather than using treatments proven to combat COVID-19, Ascension’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital followed the U.S. government’s ineffective COVID-19 treatment protocols, for which they reap significant financial rewards. On the final day of Grace’s life, as her doctor assured her parents she was doing well, Dr. Gavin Shokar also “unilaterally labeled Grace a DNR and ordered a lethal combination of IV sedatives and narcotics”—a fatal combination of the drugs Precedex, Lorazepam, and Morphine—which were administered over an incredibly short period of time.