Doctors in the United States failed to save the patient because of a tattoo

Doctors from Miami did not dare to reanimate a patient who fell into a coma. On his chest was a tattoo "not to resuscitate".

This was reported by Gizmodo.

A 70-year-old patient was taken to a Florida hospital without consciousness with severe alcohol poisoning. The doctors took off his shirt and saw a body tattoo with the inscription DO NOT RESUSCITATE.

Relatives did not find them, so the doctors gathered a committee on ethics, because the tattoo de jure is considered the last written instruction of the patient.

Doctors initially wanted to ignore the tattoo and reanimate the patient, but then he could sue them, so they decided not to interfere and the patient died.

The case with a tattoo is unique, but similar requests are not uncommon, says the edition. 80% of the patients interviewed by the American federal health insurance program would prefer not to continue their artificial life at the final stages of the disease in order not to spend significant sums of money and not to die in torture.

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