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| | Running Head: Moral Ethical Issues Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) |
 | | The medical-moral-ethical issues that appeared obvious in the movie were, abortion, access to patient records and patient privacy, patient and family rights of informed consent in medical treatment, the procurement of organs for transplant, the decision between life and death in a sustained vegetative (brain dead) state, and medical malpractice. |
 | | In the movie Coma, the healthcare professional and patient interaction is disengaged, and clinical. |
 | | In the movie Coma, nurses in the hospital are seen as nameless and faceless figures in the shadows of the background, lackadaisically taking orders from doctors, answering phones, and clumsily caring for their patients. |
| www.uncc.edu /hskao/Movie/COMA.htm (966 words) |
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