Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment
Subtitle: Guidance for Decision Making
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780727916150
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Clinical Chemistry; Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; DECISION MAKING_MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS; MEDICAL PROTOCOLS; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
First sentence: Treatment which achieves its physiological aim may fail to provide a net benefit to the patient because it is unable to achieve a level of recovery which justifies the corresponding burdens of the treatment.