Australia - A Tobacco-addicted patient and his nursing home are at odds over regulations that stop staff helping him to smoke. Brendan Nutting, who is paralysed from the neck down and has lived at the home for 2 1/2 years, received help from staff when the Tasmanian Health and Community Service was owned by the Tasman Council. The Hobart District Nurses took over the home, and will enforce a policy that prohibits staff from lighting Mr Nutting’s cigarettes, which are held in a robotic arm attached to his wheelchair.....More
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