Dying Patients: Who's in Control?
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law, Medicine and Health Care
- Vol. 17 (3), 227-231
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1989.tb01099.x
Abstract
The President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research undertook a study of “Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment” because this issue seemed to the commissioners “to involve some of the most important and troubling ethical and legal questions in modern medicine,” even though it was not part of the commission's original legislative mandate. In submitting the report to the President, Morris Abrams, the chairman of the commission, noted: “Although our study has done nothing to decrease our estimation of the importance of this subject to physicians, patients, and their families, we have concluded that the cases that involve true ethical difficulties are many fewer than commonly believed and that the perception of difficulties occurs primarily because of misunderstandings of the dictates of law and ethics.”Keywords
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