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What are some awkward differences that would happen if an episode (pick an episode, any episode) of a medical drama or police drama took place in the legal environment where you live? (lemm.ee)

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I've noticed both medical dramas and police dramas rely heavily on Californian legal practice, because Hollywood. For example, I just watched the episode of Doc (it's literally just called Doc) where a doctor saved someone on the "DNR list" and almost got suspended, and so here I was thinking "the patient's perspective would never fly in my environment". Of course, though, the US (and definitely California) are not the whole world. So I was wondering, what's an episode of a medical/police drama you could think of where, in your legal environment, the characters would seem crazy for diving into the topic of how they did?

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[–] meco03211 2 points 15 hours ago

People being put on some list like that "without their consent" is a totally different topic in my mind. To me that's more of a system failure rather than a problem with what the system is attempting to accomplish. The first person mentioned though had quotes alluding to the person ostensibly consenting. So that again is a bit of a different topic that would focus on what constitutes informed consent. That being said I've approached this under the assumption that the DNR order is valid and from a fully informed and consenting person.

That being said, the fact that they have actual lists is mind boggling. I can't understand why a list like that would even need to exist. That information should be with the records for that person, not jumbled into a list with other people. So as far as something being a culture shock to me, that right there.

Further, your 10 questions and other comments seem to be conflating DNR with suicide. This might be where we have a cultural difference. In the US, DNR is not usually conflated in this way. It is also not conflated with euthanasia which is closer to suicide. I'm assuming most users here are either US based or some other country with similar views on DNR to the US. I have a feeling this is where most people commenting are confused with how you are discussing this topic.