DNR or “Do Not Resuscitate” is the predominant and customary medical order in the United States. It has been put into law and adapted by many health care organizations. A DNR gives patients a choice that when the heart stops beating for any reason, physicians are instructed not to attempt to resuscitate you or provide advanced cardiac life support. In the absence of a valid physician’s order to forgo CPR, if a patient experiences cardiac or respiratory arrest, the standard …