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The Physician's Responsibility toward Hopelessly Ill Patients
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EFFORTS to define policies on withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining procedures from hopelessly ill patients are a relatively recent development. In 1976, when two major hospitals publicly announced their protocols in treating the hopelessly ill, the Journal marked the event with an editorial titled "Terminating Life Support: Out of the Closet!"1 Since then, the subject of permitting patients to die has emerged into the open. The courts have issued several well-publicized decisions since the 1976 Quinlan case,2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and legislatures in 15 states and the District of Columbia have enacted "natural death" acts (California, 1976; Idaho, 1977; Arkansas, 1977; New Mexico, 1977; . . .
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- Wanzer, S. H., Adelstein, S. J., Cranford, R. E., Federman, D. D., Hook, E. D., Moertel, C. G., Safar, P., Stone, A., Taussig, H. B., & Eys, J. V.
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- New England Journal of Medicine
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 1984-04-12
- Volume
- 310
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 955-959
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
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- W2052416871
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- 427
- References
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- 70.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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