The AMA's guidelines on DNR policy: conflict over patient autonomy, family consent and physician responsibility.
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Advisory Committees↗
Biomedical subjects
Frank E Reardon
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for a neurologically devastated child: whose decision is it?
A recent case highlights one of the on-going and unresolved controversies in pediatric ethics: who makes treatment decisions for children. Children, by definition, do not have the maturity to make medical choices. Those decisions must be made for them. The issue remains by whom and on what standard those choices should be made.
Decision Making↗
Ethical and legal issues in intensive care.
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Anencephaly↗
Use of a DNR order over family objections: the case of Gilgunn v. MGH.
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