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Case Study
Doctor Will You Turn Off My LVAD?
Commentaries by Jeremy R. Simon and Ruth L. Fischbach

Mr. P is a 62-year-old man with an extensive history of heart disease and severe heart failure. Eight months ago, doctors implanted a Left Ventricular Assist Device into his chest. Now Mr. P wants to have the LVAD disabled. Should Mr. P’s physicians accede to his request?

Mr. P is a 62-year-old man with an extensive history of heart disease and severe heart failure. Eight months ago, doctors implanted a Left Ventricular Assist Device into his chest. Now Mr. P wants to have the LVAD disabled. Should Mr. P’s physicians accede to his request?

“‘Doctor, Will You Turn Off My LVAD?,’” Hastings Center Report 38, no. 1 (2008): 14-15.

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