Mr. Hodges: A Case Study Of Ethical Dilemmas

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Mr. Hodges presented to the ED via LEO with suicidal ideation with multiple plans to end his life. He reports stressors are recent homelessness, legal issues, depression. Mr. Hodges decides depressive symptoms as feelings of hopelessness, tearfulness, insomnia, fatigue, and worthlessness. Mr. Hodges reports he has been staying with a girlfriend and her mother and she informed him he could no longer stay at their residence. LEO was called to remover Mr. Hodges, which he then inform LEO he felt unsafe and need to come to the hospital. Mr. Hodges stated, "I don't want to live, but I haven't found it in me to take my life; I have thought of jumping off the parking deck here at the hospital or find the nears railroad tracks to end it." Mr. Hodges

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