PHIL 2025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ingham County, Michigan, Physician Assistant, Intracranial Hemorrhage
Document Summary
Center for ethics and humanities in the life sciences. Michigan state university: case summary (adapted from a chronology in the detroit free press, february 4, 1995) In february, 1994, gregory messenger, an east lansing dermatologist, and his wife traci were expecting their second child. Their first had had some transient medical difficulties at birth, had been cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit at sparrow hospital for about a month, and was now in excellent health. Ms. messenger went into labor on the morning of february 8, 1994, when the pregnancy was only. That morning and afternoon her obstetrician administered various drugs to try to slow or stop labor. At 6:30 p. m. , dr. padmani karna from the nicu staff saw the messengers in consultation. She told them that the child, at this age, had a 30-50% chance of surviving but a 90% chance of developing intracranial bleeding if it survived, risking some degree of mental and physical handicap.
