A patient you meet on the ward has had A.I.D.S. for some time and is now seriously ill with pneumocystis carinii and other opportunistic infections. He frequently suffers respiratory failure, and has been resuscitated many times during each episode. During your contact with him, he begs you not to let anyone resuscitate him again, he "has had enough". A few days latter, while you are in his room, he suffers another episode of
respiratory failure. Do you call the resuscitation team?
Using utilitarian & deontological theories.....