To Withdraw or Not To Withdraw
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Answer the following questions:
Is withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration and intravenous antibiotics from the patient justified? In your answer, address the ideas expressed in Lessons 6.2 and 6.3 and the required readings about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and optional and obligatory treatment.
If the patient in the above scenario also was on dialysis, is there an ethical distinction between withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition and withdrawing dialysis? Explain your answer