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45 Clev. St. L. Rev. 621 (1997)
Anderson v. St. Francis-St. George Hospital: Wrongful Living from an American and Jewish Legal Perspective

handle is hein.journals/clevslr45 and id is 639 raw text is: ANDERSON V. ST. FRANCIS-ST. GEORGE HOSPITAL: WRONGFUL LIVING FROM AN AMERICAN AND JEWISH LEGAL PERSPECTIVE DANIEL POLLACK1 CHAIM STEINMETZ2 VICKI LENS3 I. PART O NE ....................................... 624 A. The Application of Traditional Tort Principles to Unwanted Medical Treatment .................... 624 B. The Wrongfid Living Claim and the Related Torts of Wrongful Pregnancy and Wrongfid Life .......... 626 II. PART Two ....................................... 631 A . Euthanasia ................................... 631 B. Informed Consent ............................. 633 C. The Ownership of Human Life ................. 633 D. Quality of Life and Value of Life .................. 635 III. CONCLUSION ..................................... 636 Edward Winter, an eighty-two-year-old man who suffered from chronic heart disease, entered St. Francis-St. George Hospital in Ohio after he lost consciousness at a senior citizen center.4 On the same day of his admission, in the presence of his daughter, he communicated to his personal physician that he did not want to be treated with extraordinary life-saving measures in the event of further illness.5 He had observed his wife's treatment in an intensive care unit, which included having her heart shocked and chest beaten, and he did not want the same thing done to him.6 His physician placed an order in his chart to provide for no code blue, indicating Winter's desire not to be resuscitated. However, Winter remained on cardiac monitoring equipment.7 1Associate Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York City. 2Rabbi at Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem, Montreal, Canada. 3Adjunct Professor at Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College, and Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 4Anderson v. St. Francis-St. George Hosp., Inc., 671 N.E.2d 225 (Ohio 1996). 5Anderson v. St. Francis-St. George Hosp., Inc., No. C-930819, 1995 WL 109128, at *2 (Ohio Ct. App. Mar. 15, 1995). 61d. at *2. 7Anderson, 671 N.E.2d at 226.