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 …

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

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 …

Bioethicists often draw sharp distinctions between hope and states like denial, self-
deception, and unrealistic optimism. But what, exactly, is the difference between hope and …

Does legal defensiveness significantly influence physicians' assessments of medical futility,
in ways that may adversely affect the rights of patients and their family members to make …

Abstract A US Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule, Protecting Statutory
Conscience Rights in Health Care (2019), and a proposed bill in the British House of Lords …

Ethicists have long promoted patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions
about their medical care without experiencing undue influence from their health care …

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 …

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

According to bioethics orthodoxy, the question,“What would the patient choose?” is a
question about the patient's autonomy. is at stake. In fact, what underpins the moral force of …