Court judgment: No Pain and suffering due to life extension

for many Years, and was fed a man. Because his son was a "senseless prolongation of suffering," he had complained on pain of money. It forbid, but more life than damage, was the verdict of the Supreme court.

Doctors need to extend the figures, there is no Pain and suffering, when you receive patients longer than is medically useful - even if you are Suffering it may be.

The decide of the Supreme civil judge of the Federal court and made it clear that it prohibits, as a General rule, a more life than damage.

of living in the USA, the son of a dementia man from Bavaria had Complained.

Without the prospect of improvement in the artificially

The son thinks it's a treatment error that his communication and movement, and was fed incompetent father without any prospect of improvement for years by gavage and brought an action against the treating physician. This should at least have to pay 100,000 euros for Pain and suffering, and treatment and care costs of more than 52,000 euros to refund.

The man had died in 2011. According to the son, whose artificial nutrition was no longer attached at the latest since the beginning of 2010.

The higher regional court of Munich had not shared in 2017, the view of the plaintiff that the doctor should not have allowed the tube feeding to continue to run, without discussing the Situation with the appointed supervisor thoroughly. Due to wounded reconnaissance duties, the judge said to the son at the time, 40,000 euros for Pain and suffering. The court overturned this verdict.

The plaintiff in the process, over the liability due to life support, artificial nutrition, together with his lawyer, Wolfgang Putz in front of the Federal court of justice prior to the start of his trial.

in A landmark ruling

The doctor had been inserted with success in Revision against the judgment. The son and his lawyer had appealed the decision, a principle to bring about judgment.

in your view, be complied with medical Standards if Doctors can be made liable for breaches. This must also apply to the treatment at the end of life. The BGH did not want to join-judge.

as a Precautionary measure, people can write down in a so-called patients, the situations in which you would like to be treated and when you don't want treatment any more. In the present case, the man had left nothing and could not even speak. If he had the stomach tube still wanted, was, therefore, unclear.

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