Should an undocumented immigrant receive a heart transplant?

AMA J Ethics. 2015 Oct 1;17(10):909-13. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.10.peer1-1510.

Authors

Aaron Wightman¹, Douglas Diekema²

Affiliations

¹ Bioethicist and pediatric nephrologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
² Director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Hospital, and serves on the Ethics Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics and is a past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics.

PMID: 26496053
DOI: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.10.peer1-1510

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Female
Health Care Rationing / ethics*
Heart Defects, Congenital / physiopathology
Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
Heart Transplantation / economics*
Heart Transplantation / ethics*
Humans
Medicaid
Medically Uninsured*
Mexico
Prognosis
Uncertainty
Undocumented Immigrants*
United States
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