Clinical Perspectives from Japan

Abstract

"As members of a clinical ethics consultation team, we (Matsumura, Sato and Kodama) recently dealt with a case very similar to the one in Hong Kong (we have dramatised the actual case below). The Japanese Case: The patient is a male in his 40s. He had begun to make mistakes more frequently at work when his memory and concentration skills started to decline after a prolonged period of coughing. He went to the hospital to be examined, accompanied by his concerned wife. A brain lymphoma and pneumocystis pneumonia were suspected in imaging tests"