Gina Piscitello
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108 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 23 Oct
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Even in situations where you think it's, well, the case that we gave was a situation where the patient is perceived to be medically futile.
CPR is not going to really help this patient.
In those situations, is it ethical to perform it?
And about 52% said, yes, it is.
And the other people said, no, it's not.
Perform a slow code.
Yeah.
And I think, you know, we explained to them, we gave them a definition of the slow code.
Many of the people who said it's ethical to perform, they said that if you are going to perform it, you need to tell the patient's family that you're performing a slow code.
Which that goes against the slow code.
The slow code is a performance.
It's a trick.
You're tricking the family to think that you're actually doing the work and you're not.
So that's, you know, that's part of it.
Nobody
survey.
They do, and they're very upset about it.
The people that I talk to, like in the community, they're very upset that, why are doctors doing this?
Like, this is totally not what we would want our doctor to be doing to us.
Yeah, and I'll say this has already been discussed, but I think harms to the patient and especially bringing up the point like I remember CPR when we've been doing it and the patient's awake.
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