Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment
A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem—one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution.(Arnold Relman, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (emeritus)New England Journal of Medicine)A lucid and important contribution to the field and moves us toward both a more scientific and a more humane approach to making treatment decisions at the end of life.(Health Affairs)A readable and insightful contribution to the field [which] will clarify and inform the public debate over futile treatment.(Joel Weissman, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School)