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Article: Quest to remove bullet in teen's head triggers debate on medical ethics, civil liberties, law and order.
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- The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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Byline: Ryan Myers
Dec. 7--An effort to have a bullet extracted from a Port Arthur teen's head raises questions of medical ethics as well as civil rights, experts in the two fields said Wednesday. A bullet in 17-year-old Joshua Bush's forehead could be evidence in a July shootout, Port Arthur police said. Because Bush hasn't consented to the surgery, a physician's decision to perform the operation is complicated, said Laurence McCullough, a medical ethics professor with the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
"Every competent adult patient has the right to accept or refuse medical treatment," McCullough said. "But the (American Medical ...