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The Girl Who Lived The Case of Jahi McMath

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title The Girl Who Lived The Case of Jahi McMath
 
Creator Maher, Vincent F.; Vincent F. Maher, J.D.
Professor of Management and Health Care Mamagement and Law
LaPenta School of Business, Iona College,
715 North Avenue,
New Rochelle, NY10801, USA
e-mail: vmaher@iona.edu
Priovolos, George; George Priovolos
Department of Marketing and International Business,
LaPenta School of Business,
Iona College, USA
Maher, Elisabeth J.; Elisabeth J. Maher
Department of Psychiatry
Montefiore Medical Center, USA
Molloy, Kevin; Kevin Molloy
Department of Management and Health Care Management,
LaPenta School of Business,
Iona College, USA
 
Description In December 2013, a thirteen year old girl underwent elective surgery to correct a sleep apnea condition. The surgery was completed without incident. In the post anesthesia care unit, the girl awakened, talked and laughed with her mother and grandmother. She was later transferred to a surgical unit for routine post-operative care. At some point she coughed. The coughing triggered post-operative hemorrhaging that quic- kly devolved into a medical emergency during which time frame she became anoxic and sustained severe brain damage. She was transferred to a critical care unit. Within days, she was diagnosed as brain dead. Her family refused to accept this diagnosis. They refused to remove her from life support or to permit others to do so. Court interventions, news and social media exposure ensued. Fingers were pointed. What should have been a difficult but straightforward medical decision became a management, ethical and legal fiasco. This paper tackles the issue of technology as a hindrance to rather than a facilitator of management in a healthcare environment. It also examines collateral issues thereof including organizational behavior, conflicts of law, and contemporaneous and post-event institutional marketing.Keywords: health care management, technology, decision making, organizational behavior, conflicts of law, post-event institutional marketing
 
Publisher Journal of Leadership and Management
 
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Date 2019-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/144
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 4, No 14 (2018): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/144/102
 
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