From the Editors
At a large bioethics conference in the early 1990s, the International Bioethics Institute presented a panel discussion on the newly-hot issue of “medical futility.” Erudite experts held forth from various perspectives, with convincing if conflicting arguments. During the question-and-answer session...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 258-260 |
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| Summary: | At a large bioethics conference in the early 1990s, the International Bioethics Institute presented a panel discussion on the newly-hot issue of “medical futility.” Erudite experts held forth from various perspectives, with convincing if conflicting arguments. During the question-and-answer session that followed, however, one attendee gently offered the one remark most recalled from that session. He was, if memory serves, a Latino physician working near the Mexico/USA border. “Thank you for your presentations,” he said, apparently with great sincerity. “I learned a lot. But on behalf of my own patients, I would ask that before you give them the right to say ‘no’ to medical treatment, we first give them the option of saying ‘yes’.” |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S096318010808047X |