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Welcome to Ethics Consult an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we ll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh in with an ethical framework to help you learn and prepare.
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Riley and Norma are two elderly residents of the dementia unit at the Shady Acres Nursing Home. Both suffer from Alzheimer s disease and are profoundly impaired generally unable to recognize friends and family or to accomplish more than the most basic tasks. In addition, Norma has numerous outbursts daily, likely tied to anxiety and paranoia. Both of their spouses are deceased; their children live in distant states, check in infrequently, and never visit.
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January 26, 2021
V.M. Burns
The Lewes library and Browseabout Books will host mystery author V.M. Burns Feb. 2 for an online talk about her novel, “A Tourist’s Guide to Murder.” SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Author V.M. Burns will discuss “A Tourist’s Guide to Murder,” her sixth book in the popular Mystery Bookshop series, in a live, virtual event hosted by the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 2, via Zoom.
“A Tourist’s Guide to Murder” follows bookshop owner and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington as she travels to London with her grandmother and friends from Shady Acres Retirement Village for the Peabody Mystery Lovers Tour. When the tour company’s owner and a fellow tourist are found dead, it is up to Samantha and the Shady Acres ladies to mix and mingle among their fellow mystery lovers, find a motive and turn up a murderer.