Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment
Publisher: BMJ Books
Published: January 31, 2002
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780727914569
Subjects: Medical ethics
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.