Add to ORKGIn caring for dying patients, family medicine practitioners intentionally adopt care plans that affect the manner and timing of death. These decisions are morally weighty. This article provides guidance regarding the ethical and legal appropriateness of practitioner decisions near the end of life. Topics include surrogate decision making, advance care planning, medical nutrition and hydration, double effect, futile care, physician-assisted death, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, palliative sedation to unconsciousness, and cultural humility
The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the q...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ethical and legal problems that arise in making decisions aboutstarting, continuing, and stoppin...
End of life (EOL) care presents a number of legal and ethical challenges in all societies irrespect...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the q...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ethical and legal problems that arise in making decisions aboutstarting, continuing, and stoppin...
End of life (EOL) care presents a number of legal and ethical challenges in all societies irrespect...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the q...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ethical and legal problems that arise in making decisions aboutstarting, continuing, and stoppin...