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- Title
Courts, doctors and end-of-life care.
- Authors
Fisher, Malcolm M.; Raper, Raymond F.
- Abstract
This article presents information on end-of-life care. The ability of doctors to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment breached the European Convention on Human Rights, specifically the right to life and the right to be spared inhuman and degrading treatment. In particular, the author objected to the General Medical Council guidance that allowed doctors to withdraw artificial nutrition or hydration from a patient where doctors felt that the patient's quality of life or chance of recovery was very poor.
- Subjects
TERMINAL care; HUMAN rights; PHYSICIANS; PATIENTS; QUALITY of life; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2005, Vol 31, Issue 6, p762
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-005-2622-4