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We have a decent percentage of Jewish patients in our hospital and I have noticed that many, if not all, of them will refuse to take their family members off full code status (sign a DNR) or will refuse palliative care consults. One of the nurses said that it may be against their religion. Can anyone shed some light on that? Is it something that is directly against their religion or just a common attitude in their culture? Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
My patient today was 98y A&Ox1, CHF, Met CA, and the family insisted om making the patient a full code despite RN/MD suggestions. The patient has been pretty unstable and I am not looking forward to potentially codeing her tomorrow. I think the Drs will just do a minimal code and call it quick. We do have a ethics board but we rarely use it for situations like this unless they are very prolonged.
My patient today was 98y A&Ox1, CHF, Met CA, and the family insisted om making the patient a full code despite RN/MD suggestions. The patient has been pretty unstable and I am not looking forward to potentially codeing her tomorrow. I think the Drs will just do a minimal code and call it quick. We do have a ethics board but we rarely use it for situations like this unless they are very prolonged.