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- Title
Futile-Care Theory: Assisted Suicide's First Cousin.
- Authors
Smith, Wesley J.
- Abstract
The author reflects on medical futility or the futile-care theory in which bioethicists assert that medical practitioners have the right to refuse to maintain life if they believe that the patient is not worth saving. He includes several frightening stories of patients whose life sustaining treatments were refused because of the financial costs involved although against the wishes of their families. The author stresses that this system seems to be opposed to the right-to-die movement.
- Subjects
BIOETHICS; PRESUMED consent (Medical law); FUTILE medical care; MEDICAL ethics; EUTHANASIA; ASSISTED suicide
- Publication
Human Life Review, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 3, p41
- ISSN
0097-9783
- Publication type
Editorial