The article focuses on the issues of medical futility with respect to Louisiana Natural Death Act, and mentions concept of personhood and the right of a severely incapacitated patient to accept or refuse treatment; and conceptual issues of the medical futility
Terminally ill patients in the United States have four medical options for controlling the time and ...
For decades, the pressing end-of-life treatment issue was whether patients had the right to decline ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...
The article discusses such topics as palliative sedation, assisted suicide, and euthanasia, as well ...
Over the past fifteen years, a majority of states have enacted medical futility statutes that permit...
Missouri’s Death-Prolonging Procedures Act of 1985 represents an effort to ensure that an individual...
Administering futile medical treatment is tantamount to inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on a...
This Article will explore the notion of medical futility, arguing that it cannot (or should not) exi...
This essay surveys the need for a clear and objective definition of medical futility. It is urged th...
This note will provide an analysis of the issue of medical futility and propose solutions to the i...
This article discusses the use of living wills as a method for permitting a terminally ill patient...
The article presents information on the adoption of law Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) ...
Part I of this article reviews the factual background of the futility debate. Part II introduces the...
Over the past twenty-five years, a significant number of surrogate decision makers have demanded tha...
A tragic scenario has become all too common in hospitals across the United States. Dying patients pr...
Terminally ill patients in the United States have four medical options for controlling the time and ...
For decades, the pressing end-of-life treatment issue was whether patients had the right to decline ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...
The article discusses such topics as palliative sedation, assisted suicide, and euthanasia, as well ...
Over the past fifteen years, a majority of states have enacted medical futility statutes that permit...
Missouri’s Death-Prolonging Procedures Act of 1985 represents an effort to ensure that an individual...
Administering futile medical treatment is tantamount to inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on a...
This Article will explore the notion of medical futility, arguing that it cannot (or should not) exi...
This essay surveys the need for a clear and objective definition of medical futility. It is urged th...
This note will provide an analysis of the issue of medical futility and propose solutions to the i...
This article discusses the use of living wills as a method for permitting a terminally ill patient...
The article presents information on the adoption of law Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) ...
Part I of this article reviews the factual background of the futility debate. Part II introduces the...
Over the past twenty-five years, a significant number of surrogate decision makers have demanded tha...
A tragic scenario has become all too common in hospitals across the United States. Dying patients pr...
Terminally ill patients in the United States have four medical options for controlling the time and ...
For decades, the pressing end-of-life treatment issue was whether patients had the right to decline ...
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In thi...