The Remmelink Committee published its report on medical decisions at the end of life in the Netherlands in September 1991. As a result, the Dutch debate about physician aid-in-dying has been broadened to include life-terminating ...

...Even though the use of life-support resources with brain death has previously been advocated only for short periods to preserve vital organs for transplantation, maternal brain death during pregnancy may warrant ...

Patient autonomy is the cornerstone of our medical ethics. Given this commitment to autonomy, proxy decisions will always strike us as problematic: it is always more difficult to ensure that the wishes of the patient ...

The goal of the PSDA is to foster communication between patients and physicians about patients' preferences for life-sustaining therapies. Compliance with the PSDA is a condition for reimbursement by Medicaid and Medicare. ...

In this paper, we examine in closer detail the ethical implications of medical futility. Section one introduces an illustrative case involving a clearly futile medical treatment. Section two outlines three contrasting positions ...

...allowing physicians to withhold life support and resuscitation because they feel it is futile, no matter how beneficent their intentions, would be an unwarranted step backwards toward the type of paternalism modern American ...