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Stopping Dialysis of an Incompetent Patient Over the Family's Objection: Is It Ever Ethical and Legal?

Keating, Robert F.; Moss, Alvin H.; Sorkin, Michael I.; Paris, John J. (1994-05)

Withholding of Nutrition and Fluids in the Hopelessly Ill Patient

Paris, John J.; Fletcher, Anne B. (1987-06)

Physicians' Refusal of Requested Treatment: The Case of Baby L

Paris, John J.; Crone, Robert K.; Reardon, Frank (1990-04-05)

The authors report a case involving an infant with severe neurologic deficits and a poor prognosis whose mother insisted that everything possible be done to prolong the child's life. Physicians, supported by the ...

The AMA's Guidelines on DNR Policy: Conflict Over Patient Autonomy, Family Consent and Physician Responsibility

Paris, John J.; Reardon, Frank E. (1991)

Control of Services in Managed Care: Guidelines for Use of Renal Dialysis

Paris, John J.; Moss, Alvin H. (1995)

The Case of Baby L

Grodin, Michael A.; Lantos, John D.; Murphy, Donald J.; Paris, John J.; Crone, Robert K.; Reardon, Frank (1990-10-18)

Ethical Context for Physician Refusal of Requested Treatment

Paris, John J.; Crone, Robert K.; Reardon, Frank E. (1991-09)

Pipes, Colanders, and Leaky Buckets: Reflections on the Futility Debate

Paris, John J. (1993)

The issue of physician refusal of requested treatment has fueled a two-pronged debate in our society -- one on the meaning of futility and the other on the limits of patient autonomy. The latter is a genuinely philosophic dispute; ...

Caring for the Terminally Ill: Resolving Conflicting Objectives Between Patient, Physician, Family, and Institution

Orr, Robert D.; Paris, John J.; Siegler, Mark (1991-11)

The Use of Anencephalic Organ Donors: Lesson of Baby Theresa Ann

Paris, John J.; Signorello, Gina (1992)