Withholding and withdrawing treatment are widely regarded as ethically equivalent in
medical guidelines and ethics literature. Health care personnel, however, widely perceive …

Many medical ethicists accept the thesis that there is no moral difference between
withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. In this paper, we offer an interesting …

Deciding whether to withhold and/or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a critically ill,
technologydependent patient raises some of the most difficult ethical issues. 1 When facing …

This paper examines the recent prominent view in medical ethics that withdrawing life‐
sustaining treatment (LST) is an act of killing. I trace this view to the rejection of the …

If a doctor is trying to decide whether or not to provide a medical treatment, does it matter
ethically whether that treatment has already been started? Health professionals sometimes …

Objectives—To assess whether UK and US health care professionals share the views of
medical ethicists about medical futility, withdrawing/withholding treatment …

Objectives: First, to present the position on the distinction between withholding and
withdrawing life-sustaining treatment as expressed in guidelines and examine its relation to …

Conventional medical ethics and the law draw a bright line distinguishing the permitted
practice of withdrawing life‐sustaining treatment from the forbidden practice of active …

METHODS We identified published studies that reported on original research that
investigated how patients and physicians discuss the elective use of life-sustaining …

THE PRACTICAL ETHICAL QUESTION IN THE CASE OF REV-erend G is this: when, if ever,
and under which con-ditions, can his cardiac pacemaker be removed? This is a specific …