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Family 1 Background info: I have a client I work with who is a young girl 18. She's currently getting surgery so she's in the hospital and will be there for a month. Anyways, she is a vegetable no offense but I blame that on the parents for waiting so long and not taking medical advice. I dont feel the client is progressing and she hasn't since I've known her. Her parents are in denial of her mental capacity.

Family 2 Now: I met a new family while my client is in the hospital to work with. I like this client a whole lot better. Her parents are progressive, open to advancing their child, open to me helping their child out in learning and from a medical prospective they're more of a team effort. The little girl is so much fun and full of life. The environment is beautiful. They want someone long term for their child. And her condition is complicated which I like because I would love to learn more about children with her type of conditions. They want her to go to school but need a school nurse. I want her to go to school and learn.

Would you stick to family 1 or venture out to family #2?

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So there was a recent medical advancement made in Huntsville, Alabama that has quite an ethical dilemma about it.

A man was medically brain dead, but his family decided to keep him alive and allow scientists to implant pig kidneys into him to test for their success In transplantation. After the transplant was successful, they removed him from the lines keeping him alive and let him die.

What are your opinions on this? The man may have been brain dead, but was it right for the family to make the decision to allow scientists to use his body for experimentation?