What Is the Decision on the Somera Case?
Question by Dan: What is the decision on the Somera Case?
it has something to do with nursing ethics. happened in may 1929.
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Answer by rickinnocal
In 1929, in Manila, PI, Lorenza Somera (a nurse), was found guilty of manslaughter, sentenced to a year in prison, and fined one thousand pesos.
She was assisting a doctor in the performance of a tonsillectomy when the doctor asked her to draw up a syringe with a certain dose of “Cocaine”. (Cocaine was widely used as a painkiller in those days) She did so, the doctor injected the dose, and the patient died. The doctor had meant to ask for “Procaine” (The generic name for “Novocaine”), but made a mistake. Procaine is administered in much higher dosages than cocaine.
At trial, Somera admitted that she knew that the requested dose of Cocaine was massive, far more than was generally used, and in fact larger than she’d ever seen administered even for pain relief of terminal patients. She also admitted that she knew that the doctor she was working with generally used Procaine, not Cocaine, and that the requested draw would have been the right amount of Procaine.
She did not question the doctors order, though, simply because “He was the doctor, and it was not my ‘place’ to question him.”
Richard
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