Who shall live? Who shall die? "No treatment" orders and guidelines.
For more than ten years the medical profession, the legal profession, and perhaps thousands of patients and their relatives have wrestled with the issues of therapy withdrawal, removal of life-sustaining machinery when recovery is hopeless. This major article presents a wide range of insights useful for the individual physician, the hospital governing board, the nurse as well as for policy and lawmakers who confront this issue.
D004992:Ethics, Medical; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000592:standards*; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States