Abstract
A patient is admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) but after a time derives no significant medical benefit from remaining there. The patient's attending physicians begin establishing a plan for transfer (to another section of the hospital, to a skilled nursing establishment, or to a rehabilitation center or other facility). Members of the patient's family refuse to allow the transfer, threatening legal action if the patient is moved from the ICU. A legal nightmare is about to engulf the hospital and the health care professionals- or maybe not.
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Ross, G. (2013). Medical judgment versus capitulation. In ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium: Will We Say “No”? (Vol. 9781461438663, pp. 287–291). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3866-3_35
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