In this issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics, a case from the Harvard Ethics Consortium discusses a patient named Lorraine who sometimes was so violent she drove careproviders from her room. Such situations are not uncommon, and the outcomes often are tragic. In this case, Lorraine eventually stopped treatment, suffered greatly, and died of infection from her decubitus ulcers. In situations like this, staff are often split: some side with the patient and others side against. The latter may come to feel contempt for the patient, and, if they do, the situation typically worsens. The patient can feel increasingly alone, and become more aggressive, maybe because isolation is the most painful of all feelings. Staff may then feel even more helpless and enraged, and the vicious cycle intensifies. This is apparently what happened with Lorraine. As Jennifer Repper-DeLisi and Susan M. Kilroy write in “ ‘We Need To Meet,’ ” the staff’s “natural responses” to the patient were “frustration, anger, and rejection.” Staff usually try to do the best they can, as in Lorraine’s case, but we may not help patients as much as we hope. In reality, it may not be possible to help them — for example, in this case it is unlikely that Lorraine could have done better. But there are exceptional approaches that can be used when conventional approaches don’t succeed. These approaches may help all patients, but, with patients like Lorraine, they may be lifesaving, so ethics consultants and other careproviders should at least know about them.
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