title: Ethics in critical care medicine: conclusions.
abstract: This article describes the history of critical care medicine's cooperation with ethics, relates some lessons learned from this cooperation, identifies implications for other chronic and acute settings, and gives some suggestions for governmental and social input into the solution of the difficult ethical questions faced by contemporary medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Kanoti
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Orlowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vinicky
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D003657:Decision Making; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012945:Social Values