The Safety and Comfort of Home: Can Medical Deportation Alleviate Suffering?

Q3 Medicine
Medha Palnati
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AbstractMedical deportation, or the forced removal of severely injured and chronically ill, low-income, uninsured migrants to their countries of origin, remains a practice implemented by hospitals throughout the United States. This practice has been rightfully highly criticized by immigration advocates and human rights organizations. In 2019, the U.S. government eliminated a deferred action program allowing migrants without documentation to avoid deportation while they or their relatives were undergoing lifesaving medical treatment, forcing patients with highly complex medical needs to give up specialized healthcare allowing them to survive and thrive. When meaningful recovery from severe disease and injury is possible, medical deportation is unquestionably abhorrent, often rooted in media-driven, racialized criminalization of U.S. residents without documentation. However, extreme circumstances call into question whether there is ever an appropriate implementation of this practice. This commentary on a case seeks to highlight that in circumstances where patients face no chance of meaningful recovery, medical deportation may serve as an avenue through which to alleviate suffering.

家的安全和舒适:医疗驱逐能减轻痛苦吗?
摘要医疗驱逐,或强制将重伤和慢性病、低收入、无保险的移民遣返回原籍国,仍然是美国各地医院实施的一种做法。这种做法理所当然地受到了移民倡导者和人权组织的高度批评。2019年,美国政府取消了一项延期行动计划,该计划允许无证件的移民在他们或他们的亲属接受挽救生命的医疗期间避免被驱逐出境,迫使有高度复杂医疗需求的患者放弃专业医疗,使他们能够生存和发展。当严重的疾病和伤害有可能得到有意义的恢复时,医疗驱逐无疑是令人憎恶的,其根源往往是媒体驱动的,对没有证件的美国居民进行种族化的刑事定罪。然而,在极端的情况下,是否有一个适当的实现这种做法的问题。本评论力求强调,在病人没有机会真正康复的情况下,医疗驱逐可作为减轻痛苦的一种途径。
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Journal of Clinical Ethics
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Clinical Ethics is written for and by physicians, nurses, attorneys, clergy, ethicists, and others whose decisions directly affect patients. More than 70 percent of the articles are authored or co-authored by physicians. JCE is a double-blinded, peer-reviewed journal indexed in PubMed, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, and other indexes.
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