Jose Morales is a 46yearold husband and father of two grown

Jose Morales is a 46-year-old husband and father of two grown children. He has painful metastatic bone cancer. He is being discharged with a pain management program that still does not completely ease his pain. He tells you that he plans to “end it all” once he is at home, and asks you to help him with information about what kind and how much medication it would take so his death did not look like suicide. He also warns you not to tell anyone of his plans, because of “confidentiality.”

1. Describe how you would answer his questions about assisted suicide.

2. Discuss the issue of confidentiality among the health care team versus invasion of privacy. How would you handle his request not to tell anyone?

Solution

It’s very important to understand the euthanasia laws or physician assisted suicide of that country or state where we live in. we shall know that whether the physician assisted suicide is legal or not. Then he can be prescribed the required medication or the dosage of a regular drug that is suicidal. If it’s illegal in a country or state, then we cannot go about it and we need to ask him to see a counselor.

If its legal in that country or state the healthcare practitioner will need to maintain the confidentiality as per the legal guidelines.