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Mrs. Lindsay, a 76-year-old woman with dementia, was admitted to the emergency department with a small bowel obstruction. As the surgeon on call, you must decide how to proceed given that Mrs. Lindsay has no surrogate decision maker and surgery is necessary, but her wishes are unknown. The case raises complex ethical issues around respecting patient autonomy, providing beneficence, assessing decision-making capacity, and determining the appropriate standard of care for an incapacitated patient without surro

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imad mokalled

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