Thaddeus Mason Pope

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Unrepresented Patients - Resources
This page collects resources on how to make decisions for incapacitated patients with no available surrogate. These individuals are often referred to as unrepresented for unbefriended patients. I have divided the page into these six sections:
  1. Articles by Professor Pope
  2. Presentations by Professor Pope
  3. Statutes
  4. Cases
  5. Legal & Medical Literature
  6. Facility & Society Policies

Articles by Professor Pope
An Official ATS/AGS Policy Statement: Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unrepresented Patients in the ICU (in progress with multi-disciplinary committee).

Five Things Clinicians Should Know When Caring for Unrepresented Patients,, 21(7) AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS 581-585 (July 2019)..

Unbefriended and Unrepresented: Medical Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients without Healthcare Surrogates, 33(4) GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 923-1019 (2017).

Legal Briefing: Adult Orphans and the Unbefriended: Making Medical Decisions for Unrepresented Patients without Surrogates, 26(2) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 180-188 (2015).

Making Medical Decisions for Patients without Surrogates, 369(21) NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1976-1978 (2013).

Legal Briefing: The Unbefriended: Making Healthcare Decisions for Patients without Proxies (Part 1), 23(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 84-96 (2012) (with Tanya Sellers).

Legal Briefing: The Unbefriended: Making Healthcare Decisions for Patients without Proxies (Part 2), 23(2) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 177-192 (2012) (with Tanya Sellers).

Legal Fundamentals of Surrogate Decision Making, 141(4) CHEST 1074-1081 (2012).

Presentations by Professor Pope
Pope PPT Handout for UCLA (Jan. 17, 2018)
Statutes
Montana S.B. 92 (2017) (medical proxy with HEC)
Colorado HB 1101 (May 2016) (medical proxy with HEC)
California Health & Safety Code 1418.8 (interdisciplinary team, Epple committee)
California 2015 statute for prisoners (medical supervisor)
ABA Commission - Chart on Surrogate Statutes (2014)
Court Cases
CANHR v Smith (Cal. App. July 2019) (Opinion)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App) (PTF response to CAHF)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App) (PTF response to CMA CHA CDA)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App) (AARP amicus brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App) (CA LTC Ombudsperson Assn amicus brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App) (Disability Rights CA amicus brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App Sept 29, 2017) (ACLU amicus brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App Sept 29, 2017) (AARP amicus brief)
CANHR v Smith (Cal App June 13, 2017) (reply brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App April 2017) (CMA CHA CDA amicus brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App Jan 17, 2017) (Respondent Brief)
CANHR v. Smith (Cal App Nov 17, 2016) (Appellant Brief)
CANHR v Chapman (Alameda Sup Ct Jan 2016) (final judgment)
CANHR v. Chapman (Alameda Sup Ct, Cal. 2015) (Order granting petition)
CANHR v. Chapman (Alameda Sup. Ct., Cal. 2013) (Complaint)
In re Tschumy (Minn. 2014)
In re Tschumy (Minn. App. 2013)
In re Turner (Disability Rts Cal. 2013)
In re Yeager (Colo. App. 2004)
Rains v Belshe (Cal App 1995)
Legal & Medical Literature
CANHR, FAQ on CA LTC Consent (2017)
Harvard Community Ethics Committee, MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING FOR UNKNOWN and UNREPRESENTED PATIENTS
IOM (Institute of Medicine), Dying in America 146-47 (2015)
Karp & Wood, ABA, Incapacitated and Alone (2003)
Kilgore, CARING FOR THE AGES (2014)
New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (1992)
Ortiz, NORC, Informational Brief on Unbefriended-Elders (2010)
Pope, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2017)
Pope, CHEST (2012)
Pope, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2013)
Pope, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS (2015) (1st page only)
Pope, J CLINICAL ETHICS (2012 - Part 1) 1st page only
Pope, J CLINICAL ETHICS (2012 - Part 2) 1st page only
Pope, Cardozo J Conflict Resolution (2014)
Pope, ASBH Presentation in Houston (Oct. 2015)
Pope, 350 slides from Feb 2017 Guardianship Summit
Volpe & Steinman, Hamline L Rev (2013)
MP3 from ASBH Session (Oct. 2015)
MP3 from Griggins ASBH (Oct. 2015)
Facility & Society Policies
American College of Physicians (2012)
American Geriatrics Society (1996) (old)
American Geriatrics Society (2016)
American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics 2.1.2(f)
Brigham & Women's Hospital
California Hospital (generic)
California Hospital Association (rev 2015)
California Medical Association
Cleveland Clinic
Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (2013)
Highland Hospital of Rochester (2003) (NY)
Kentucky Medical Association (2019)
LACBA & LACMA (2006) (CA)
Lenox Hill (NY)
NY Criminal Justice Identification of Unidentified Patients Model Policy (2017)
NY FHCDA Form 5
Oregon Health & Science University (2014)
Regions Hospital (MN)
San Francisco General
Santa Clara County Medical Association
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
St. Joseph Health (2017) (CA)
Stanford Hospital
Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District (2008) (CA)
UCLA
University Health System (2015) (San Antonio, TX)
University Hospital (NJ)
Veterans Health Administration (2009)
Veterans Health Administration (2017)
West Virginia State Agency