Dr. Rosamond Rhodes: “Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists”
A Connecticut teen's fight to refuse chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma -- and a court's decision to force it on her anyway -- is not arousing many concerns on the part of medical ethicists. Rosamond Rhodes, PhD, director of bioethics education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, agreed with Caplan that the court's ruling was justified.
A Connecticut teen's fight to refuse chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma -- and a court's decision to force it on her anyway -- is not arousing many concerns on the part of medical ethicists. Rosamond Rhodes, PhD, director of bioethics education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, agreed with Caplan that the court's ruling was justified. "When a treatment offers an 80% to 85% chance of a cure, while the consequence of refusing treatment is certain death from a terrible disease, the great chance of a very significant benefit from treatment far outweighs any other consideration," she wrote in an email. Learn more
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