title: [The listening doctor; appropriate care in the last phase of life].
abstract: In his report 'Everything that can be done should not necessarily be done. Appropriate care in the last phase of life', the chairman of the steering committee of the Royal Dutch Medical Association says: 'I wish that doctors would listen to their patients.' This wish sets the tone of the report, which signals overtreatment in patients' last years of life and advocates a more restrained approach by doctors in this phase. The message is, however, that for this to take place a complete U-turn in modern medical thinking and management is needed.
authors.affiliation: Rotterdam.
authors.forename: Jan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Molenaar
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*