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- Title
Ten Days in Texas.
- Authors
MILLER, GEOFFREY
- Abstract
The author comments on the Advanced Directives Act introduced in Texas. This law is a mechanism that allows hospital ethics committees to resolve futility situations. The law has been discussed favorably in the medical literature, and Texas physicians appear to be using the mechanism. Physicians have no absolute duty to offer treatments they reasonably believe will have no beneficial effect. However, the very specificity of the law is problematic. In some cases, life-sustaining treatment should be continued longer than what is medically needed.
- Subjects
TEXAS; MEDICAL care laws; MEDICAL laws; MEDICAL ethics
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 4, p57
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1353/hcr.2007.0058