Good for Mt. Sinai; it needed to change.

More than a decade ago, my mother's 97 year old cousin was admitted due to recurrent bladder infections. An internist at Mount Sinai determined that a small cancer in her bladder was the cause and recommended they it be removed; but the hospital's oncologists refused to operate.  I appealed for help from the hospital's ethicist who arranged a hearing; but negative with results.

So, she was confined to bed as she wasted away for months with poor treatment. For example, her nurse asked her if she had contemplated suicide!  Her food was placed beside her bed with no attempt to help her reach it to eat - so it was left uneaten as she wasted away. 

Somehow, I hope that the ethicist had an influence on the change in policy as he seemed like a decent sympathetic gentleman.