アメリカの医療用語である””””カリフォルニアから来た娘症候群””””

Decision Making in the Incompetent Elderly:
The Daughter from California Syndrome
David W. Molloy; MB BCh MRCPL FRCP(C),t
M Clarnette; MB、BS FRACPt
E Ann Braun MSc MD,+ Martin R Eisemann PhD,+ and B. Sneiderman BA, LLB LLMS
ecision-making regarding
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care
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intact the long line o
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beginning with In the
mentally incornpetent Patient is often com-
Matter of Karen Quinlan in which state supreme courts
Plicated by legal
econornlic
and cthi-
have held that decisions to terminate life
~prolonging
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Cal factors
that affect case management.
treatment for incompetent Patients should rest with
The incompetent Palient requires
advocate
the patient’ s family and physicians
The courts have
sponsibility that generally falls upor the family
further ruled that the courtroom should be the Forum
conflict over
Patient arises
within
the family the
of last resort for decision-making involving Uhe term
result may well be inimical
effective Patient man
マロン
of life-prolonging
treatment for
wncompetent
agement。
Paticnts
June
25th,
1990
the United
States
Supreme
the view of the judges
however, they have
role
Court issucd its decision in Cruzan
Director, Missouri
t0 Play when there is in-family conflict that cannot be
Department of Health
the first case in which the high
resolved in the health care setting
In that event judi
Court
considered
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termination
of life-prolonging
cial action
called tor in which either the
mlake3
measures for incompetent Patients
dccision
the trecatment decision or elsc vests that authonty
the Court upheld the decision by the Missouri Supreme
guardian apPointed to act on the Patient’ s behalf. （The
Court that the feeding tube of Vancy Cruzan
patient
trend in the more recemt Cases is
assign the decision
persistent vegetative state since 1983 could not be
guardian;
the court itself )
removed at the request of her parents
The reason was
The “Daughter from California Syndrome
describes
that there was no ‘clear and convincing
evidence that
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such in-family predicament. In this
Ca5（
an adult
the Patient when competent had specifically indicated
daughter who had
not seer her mother for
years;
that she would nol wish
tube-fed if she ever
aPpeared on the scene when critical health care options
became irreversibly unconscious 。
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considered Tor her incompetent mother.
The
naTTo
import of the decision in Cruzan must
Upon being confronted with her mother’
cunditior
be stressed
The Court ruled that itis constitutionally
the daughter responded with acute denial as well as
permissible for
state
require that life-prolonging
anger
resentmnent
directed
against the medical
meaourt
Incompetent Patient remain In Plaice
stafl She refused t0 come t0
lerTs
with her mother s
unless the
Patient had left behind
clear directive
condition,
demanded inaPpropriate
aggressive
care。
excluding such
YDum –
the cvent of
futurc state
and
impeded the management of the case
of incompetency
The Court did not rle that such
Health care directives
ofter
Possible solution to
state rle
mandatory but simply that
state may
these problems by allowing competent individuals to
rule ir
chooscs
The decisior in Cruzan thus leaves
choose their
Uwrt
health
elT
berore they becuriie ‘
competent
We report this case because it ilustrates
many or the features o this syndrome.
Roger
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and