You find that I have "DNR" tattooed on my chest.
Based on your beliefs, what do you do?
2007-06-12 04:03:10 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Spectacular, Super Bobo! =0) That made my day...
2007-06-12 04:22:40 · update #1
It's not a matter of belief. I have to know why you're not breathing. If it's the hot dog stuck in your windpipe, you're getting resuscitated. Also, a tattoo is not a valid DNR. Maybe your girl/boyfriend's initials are DNR.
2007-06-12 04:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, a tattoo isn't legally binding, so even if you have that on your chest, it isn't a binding order. Your file would be checked to see if you had a signed copy of a DNR. If you don't, I would work on reviving you. It's in our ethical code to do everything we can to help you, so unless it's signed, on paper, we have to honor that code.
Not only that, but what does the DNR tattoo stand for? It could be initials, or a code of some kind that you understand, but means nothing about anything medical.
There is also the question as to why you are unresponsive. If there is still brain activity, and still heart function, you aren't dead, and something else is wrong. That would mean that even with a signed DNR, you aren't dead, so we can do anything medically we need to to get you to be responsive. So we would start working on you, find out WHY you are unconscious and then we would work to remedy that.
Good question though!!!! Gets people to think!!
2007-06-12 11:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by odd duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honor your request.
That said, a tattoo is hardly legally binding. I would have to check the files, see what the issue is, etc, like the person below said. I won't let you die cuz of a hot dog, but if you have advanced cancer oer some other terminal illness that inspired the DNR, of course I would honor it. Most legal DNRs are VERY specific about what types of measures are acceptible and which are not. Most do not exculd the Heimlich maneuver!
2007-06-12 11:08:29 · answer #3 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I had time to check the file, I'd see if that's what you want because you have a terminal illness.
If I didn't have time, I'd disregard the tattoo because DNRs don't come in that form (unless the hospital rules it as such) and save your life, assuming that DNR meant something else.
2007-06-12 11:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by Studier Alpha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Do Nothing Radical?' 'Does Not Rodeo?' 'Does Not Run?' 'Dorothy Nesbit Robinson?' 'Don 'N' Roberta?'
It is possible that you were sitting in an apple tree, eating to your hearts content, when suddenly, you bite off more than you can handle. You begin choking, and struggling to give yourself the 'Heimlich', you fall out of the tree and knock yourself unconscious. Or, suppose there was foul play, and again, you're knocked unconscious, and someone shoved some cloth down your throat?
In an emergency room, I'd try and revive you. I guess I'd have to deal with the consequences of an upset, tattooed atheist after the fact.
2007-06-12 11:17:23 · answer #5 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DNR tattooed on your chest is not a legal DNR, so they would have to try to save you.
2007-06-12 11:12:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revive you.
Next time, spend the extra couple of bucks and have it spelled out: "Attention doctors, do no resuscitate me"
Who knows, DNR might be the initials of your favorite band. =)
2007-06-12 11:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DNR is DNR. Honor the request.
2007-06-12 11:14:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can passively allow you to remain dead or actively attempt to force you to live.
My passivity would respect your choice, at the cost of any remaining human potential you might have.
My activity would deny your choice, while preserving your remaining human potential (though slightly decremented as I would violate your prior agency).
My choice then would have to be based on just how much remaining human potential you have. If you are 18 and in otherwise good health, yes, I would defy your wishes with a clear conscience. If, on the other hand, you're 80 years old with inoperable cancer, I would respect your wishes as the gains in human potential would not cover the decrement caused by my defiance.
2007-06-12 11:12:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've seen that family members are called in anyway because the tattoo isn't the legally stamped paperwork, so you'll be poke, prodded, the finger up the wazoo, intubated and hammered on until you're either pronounced or sit up and declare yourself Queen.
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2007-06-12 11:36:18 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋