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Medical Futility Legal Tools & Limits
for Resolving Disputes
over Inappropriate
Life-Sustaining Treatment
Yale Medicine ● March 27, 2014
Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Hamline University Health Law Institute
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NO relevant personal
financial relationships
or intent to discuss an
off-label / investigative
use of a commercial
product or device.
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Preface
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Liberty to hasten
Liberty to prolong
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2010
~200 attendings
residents
nurses
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78%
22%
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Orientation
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Surrogate
driven
over-treatment
Surrogate
LSMT
Clinician
CMO
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1. Vocabulary
2. Prevalence
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3. Causes
4. Prevention
5. Consensus
6. Intractable
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Vocabulary
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1. Futile
2. Inappropriate
3. Potentially
inappropriate 35
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Imminent death
Permanent unconscious
No survive outside ICU
Burdens > benefits
41 42
Value
laden
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Prevalence
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“Conflict . .
.in ICUs . . .
epidemic
proportions”
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Futile Probably
Futile
904
123 98
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> 33% ethics consults
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Causes 50
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1. Surrogate
demand
2. Provider
resist 52
Surrogate
demand
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Cognitive
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Iatrogenic
Inadequate communication
Uncoordinated, conflicting
Undue pressure
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Mistrust
57 58
59 60
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Emotional
Barriers
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65 66
Psychological
Barriers
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Never give in, never give in,
never, never, never, never, . . .
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transcranial direct-current stimulation 75 76
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Religion
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Zier et al., 2009
Chest 136(1):110-7
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MORE
surrogate
demand 84
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85 86
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Clinicians
resist
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Avoid
patient
suffering
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“This is the Massachusetts
General Hospital, not Auschwitz.”
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“not . . . much difference .
. . atrocities in Bosnia”
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Moral
distress
93 94
Absenteeism
Retention
Quality
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Integrity of
profession
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Stewardship
99 100
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Distrust
surrogate 102
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66% accurate
50% = pure chance
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Quick
etiology
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Prevention
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Most patients
do NOT want
futile treatment
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71%: “More important to
enhance the quality of
life for seriously ill
patients, even if it means
a shorter life.”
National Journal (Mar. 2011) 108
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More
ACP
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Earlier
ACP 116
EOL disclosures (NY, CA, MI, VT)
117 118
Limited effectiveness
Side effects
Options
119 120
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Better
ACP
123
ptDA
124
125 126
Limits to
Prevention
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18-29 15%
30-49 33%
50-64 38%
65-74 61%
75+ 58%
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30% 130
Consensus
Prevention Consensus
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1. Negotiation &
Mediation
2. Transfer
3. New Surrogate
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Negotiation
Mediation
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Clinician
Su
rrog
ate
Stop Go
Stop
Go
95% 136
137 138
Prendergast (1998)
57% agree immediately
90% agree within 5 days
96% agree after more meetings
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Garros et al. (2003)
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1st 3+
Unresolved
Resolved
2d Eventual 140
Fine & Mayo (2003)
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Immediate Three Days Eventual
Unresolved
Resolved
141
Resolved
Unresolved
Hooser (2006)
2922
142
section 2.037
143
1. Earnest attempts . . .
deliberate . . .
negotiate . .
2. Joint decision-making
. . . maximum extent . . 144
3. Attempts . . .
negotiate . . .
reach resolution . . .
4. Involvement . . .
ethics committee . . .
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Consensus
Intractable 5%
Transfer
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149
Clinician
Su
rrog
ate
Stop Go
Stop
Go
Rare, but
possible 150
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Replace
Surrogate
153
Clinician
Su
rrog
ate
Stop Go
Stop
Go
Substituted
judgment
Best interests 154
Conn. Gen. Stat.
19a-580e(a)
19a-575a(a)
19a-577
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~ 60%
accuracy
159
More
aggressive
treatment
Improve
Surrogate
Accuracy
2.20: “surrogate’s decision . . .
almost always be accepted”
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ptDA
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Conn. Gen. Stat.
19a-580c(b)
“claim that the actions of
the person named as
health care representative
would interfere”
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165
Reasons to
Replace
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167 168
Terry Mace
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Liz Van Note
170
Surrogate Advance
directive
A B
171 Albert Barnes 172
173
Dorothy Livadas
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Surrogate Best
interests
A B
177
Evidence
Burden / benefit
Gary Harvey
“failed to follow
medical advice”
“failed to use
good judgment”
Barbara Howe
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Your own personal
issues are “impacting
your decisions”
“Refocus your
assessment” 182
LIMITS of
surrogate
replacement
Providers
cannot show
deviation
1
184
Surrogates
get benefit
of doubt
2
Good Bad ??
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Surrogates
loyal & faithful
3
190
Consent
and
Capacity
Board
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Intractable
Conflict
Prevention Consensus
Intractable
1. Covert
2. Cave-in
3. Act w/o consent
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Covert Without legal
support to w/d or
w/h openly and
transparently,
some do it covertly.
D. Asch, Am. J. Resp. Crit. Care Med. (1995)
• Legally risky
202
203
Providers have won
almost every single
damages case for
unilateral w/h, w/d
204
IIED
NIED
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Secretive
Insensitive
Outrageous 206
Consultation
expected
Distress
foreseeable
207
O’Connell v.
Bridgeport Hosp.
(Conn. Super. 2000)
208
Valentin v. St. Francis
Hosp. (Conn. Super.
Hartford 2005)
209
Marsala v. YNHH
(Conn. Super. 2013)
210
Cave-in
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“Why they follow the . . .
SDMs instead of doing
what they feel is
appropriate, almost all cited
a lack of legal support.” 212
“Remove the
__, and I will
sue you.”
213 214
215
Easier to cave-in
Patient will die soon
Provider will round off
Nurses bear brunt
216
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Civil liability
Battery
Medical malpractice
Informed consent
State HCDA
EMTALA 218
Licensure discipline
Criminal liability
e.g. homicide
219
Legal
Risk 220
Few
cases
221 222
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$250,000
224
225 226
Few
successful
227 228
BUT
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Risk > 0 ƒManning (Idaho 1992)
Rideout (Pa. 1995)
Bland (Tex. 1995)
Wendland (Iowa 1998)
Causey (La. 1998) 230
231 232
233
Liability averse
Litigation averse
234
Process = punishment
Even prevailing parties
pay transaction costs
Time
Emotional energy
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Defensive
Medicine 236
Mass. Med. Society (Nov. 2008)
237
Bad
law 238
239 240
Covert
Cave-in
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Stop
without
consent 242
243
Green 244
You may stop LSMT
for any reason
- with immunity
- if your HEC agrees
Tex. H&S 166.046
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1. 48hr notice HEC
2. Written decision
3. 10 day transfer
250
CA
251
WA
252
WI
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S.B. 1114
(Mar. 2009)
255 256
257 258
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‘til
transfer 262
263 Miss. Code § 41-107-3
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Red 274
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Consent
and
Capacity
Board
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Consent
always 278
279
“If surrogate directs
[LST] . . . provider
that does not wish
to provide . . . shall
nonetheless
comply . . . .”
280
Discrimination
in Denial of
Life Preserving
Treatment Act
281
“Health care . .
. may not be . . .
denied if . . .
directed by . . .
surrogate” 282
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285 286
SDM Red Light
Agent / POA Yes
Default
surrogate
No; Maybe
Guardian No; Maybe 288
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FRCP
65
“I . . .
come in .
. . and
use the
law to
say stop”
Life & death stakes
Unclear facts
Unclear law
TRO
294
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Yellow
296
Not
red 297
Not
green
either 298
Yellow
299 300
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Physician “withholds,
removes . . . life support .
. . of an incapacitated
patient shall not be
liable provided (1) . . .
(2) . . . (3) . . .”
(2)
303
terminal condition
or
permanently
unconscious (3)
305
“attending
physician has
considered the
patient's wishes” 306
“informed
consent of
NOK”
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Marsala v. YNHH
(Conn. Super. 2013)
309
“No current
law exists
that will give
. . . immunity
. . . If you
refuse to
treat a
certain way.”
Probate Judge Robert K. Killian Jr.
(1)
“best medical
judgment of
the attending
physician”
“in accordance with
the usual and
customary
standards of
medical practice” 312
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S Standard
of Care
S Standard
of Care
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Bad
322
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Safe harbor attributes
Clear
Precise
Concrete
Certain
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TX Measurable
procedures
CT Vague
substantive
standards
326
=
328
Worse
329
Not just ambiguity
Providers continue
to create the
“wrong” standard of
care
Dan Merenstein 291 JAMA 15 (1994)
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Future
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Fairness
Efficiency
336
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Thaddeus Mason Pope Director, Health Law Institute Hamline University School of Law 1536 Hewitt Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104 T 651-523-2519 F 901-202-7549 E [email protected] W www.thaddeuspope.com B medicalfutility.blogspot.com 338
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legislative, judicial, regulatory, medical, and
other developments concerning medical futility
and end-of-life medical treatment conflict. The
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343
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Dangers of Judicial Deference and Medical Self-
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Provide Informed Consent Will Not
Permit Physicians to Unilaterally Refuse
Requested CPR, 10(1) AM. J. BIOETHICS
82-83 (Jan. 2010).
Pope TM, Legal Briefing: Medical Futility and
Assisted Suicide, 20(3) J. CLINICAL
ETHICS 274-86 (2009).
344
Pope TM, Involuntary Passive Euthanasia in
U.S. Courts: Reassessing the Judicial
Treatment of Medical Futility Cases, 9
MARQUETTE ELDER’S ADVISOR 229-68
(2008).
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Approaches to Medical Futility Disputes in
the United States, Invited Testimony,
President’s Council on Bioethics
(Sept. 12, 2008).
345
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Harbor to Unilaterally Stop Life-Sustaining
Treatment, 75 TENN. L. REV. 1-81 (2007).
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Getting Beyond the Limits of the Talking
Cure, 23 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL.
143-94 (2007).
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Futility, 15 MID-ATLANTIC ETHICS
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