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That sounds completely intractable in an emergency situation.

• jstanley 9y ago
  Perhaps it could be an embedded computer with a small display just under his skin that asks each morning whether he'd like to be resuscitated that day and records his response. If it detects that he has become unconscious (because his pulse has stopped?) it could display a bold "DNR" on the display, and possibly play some audio to that effect as well. It actually seems like it would only take an order of magnitude or 2 of miniaturisation before this is an easy weekend project...
  • pc86 9y ago
    Or you can just file a normal DNR through the normal process like a normal person.
    • killjoywashere 9y ago
      But I'm a doctor, and know how eager my colleagues are to blow past a DNR. The attorney thing has actually been deployed in practice.
      • pc86 9y ago
        So when someone is in cardiac arrest and they have a URL and QR code tattoo you're going to stop treatment while you debug their shitcode to figure out whether it's even relevant to what's happening?
        • killjoywashere 9y ago
          It's not the ER that I'm worried about. It's the ICU.