Taking Hostages: The Linares Case
Miles, Steven H., The Hastings Center Report
Taking Hostages: The Linares Case
Five-month-old Samuel Linares aspirated a blue balloon at a birthday party on August 2, 1988. With his son in his arms, the twenty-three year-old father, Rudolfo, rushed to a fire station where paramedics removed the balloon with a forceps. Samuel was left comatose and respirator-dependent in a "persistent vegetative state" at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. When the prognosis became clear, the family asked that the respirator be disconnected and their son allowed to die.
Though the physicians were sympathetic, the hospital's lawyer read federal law to require the hospital to continue treatment to avoid …
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Publication information:
Article title: Taking Hostages: The Linares Case.
Contributors: Miles, Steven H. - Author.
Journal title: The Hastings Center Report.
Volume: 19.
Issue: 4
Publication date: July-August 1989.
Page number: 4.
© 1999 Hastings Center.
COPYRIGHT 1989 Gale Group.
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