Futile Medical Care Press Articles

California Bookwatch - Wrong Medicine

October 1, 2011 --

Wrong Medicine, 2nd edition

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD and Nancy S. Jecker, PhD

The Johns Hopkins University Press

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Reference & Research Book News - Wrong medicine; doctors, patients, and futile treatment, 2d ed

June 1, 2011 --

Wrong medicine; doctors, patients, and futile treatment, 2d ed.

Schneiderman, Lawrence J. and Nancy S. Jecker.

Johns Hopkins...

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Sarmatian Review - Bundist Countercultue in Interwar Poland

April 1, 2011 --

Bundist Counterculture In Interwar Poland

By Jack Jacobs. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009. Notes, bibliography, index....

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Townsend Letter - Townsend's New York observer: field notes from the cancer wars: the war against nutrients and natural products - part 1

November 1, 2010 --

One wonders how many patients with advanced pancreatic cancer would really demand cytotoxic drugs if the sheer futility of such therapy was...

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U.S. Army Medical Department Journal - Medical futility

January 1, 2010 --

Introduction

What is medical futility and who decides? Over the past few years, several states have enacted medical futility statutes...

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Anatolian Journal of Cardiology (Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi), The - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the view of ethics and law/ Hukuk ve etik acisindan kardiyopulmoner resussitasyon

October 1, 2008 -- ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

In all medical and surgical interventions, the main principle is to inform the patient of possible complications,...

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South African Medical Journal - Medical futility and end-of-life care

April 1, 2008 -- Acceptance of the concept of medical futility facilitates a paradigm shift from curative to palliative medicine, accommodating a more humane...

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