Life-support and end-of-life questions: treatment or intervention?
Advances in medical care during the past hundred years have been phenomenal. Before modern times, little could be done to overcome life-threatening situations from injury, trauma, or disease. Most interventions were counterproductive; they did more harm than good. It has been during the last 30 years that medicine has been able to save more lives than cause death.
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D003657:Decision Making; D034723:Double Effect Principle; D004989:Ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008020:Life Support Care; D018447:Medical Futility; D028681:Moral Obligations; D012945:Social Values; D013727:Terminal Care; D028761:Withholding Treatment