TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond Autonomy – Physicians' Refusal to Use Life-Prolonging Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
AU - Paris, John J.
AU - Schreiber, Michael D.
AU - Statter, Mindy
AU - Arensman, Robert
AU - Siegler, Mark
PY - 1993/7/29
Y1 - 1993/7/29
N2 - Three years ago we noted that the literature on physicians' refusal to provide requested treatment was sparse1. Since that time the issue has fueled an intense, two-pronged debate – on futility and on the limits of patient autonomy. The debate over patient autonomy is a genuinely philosophical dispute; that over futility seems to be a relapse into nominalism. It is not the meaning of a word but the moral basis for the actions of the participants that ought to be the focus of our attention. The fractious debate on the meaning of futility, evidenced in a spate of recent…
AB - Three years ago we noted that the literature on physicians' refusal to provide requested treatment was sparse1. Since that time the issue has fueled an intense, two-pronged debate – on futility and on the limits of patient autonomy. The debate over patient autonomy is a genuinely philosophical dispute; that over futility seems to be a relapse into nominalism. It is not the meaning of a word but the moral basis for the actions of the participants that ought to be the focus of our attention. The fractious debate on the meaning of futility, evidenced in a spate of recent…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199307293290512
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199307293290512
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 8110219
AN - SCOPUS:0027296648
VL - 329
SP - 354
EP - 357
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 5
ER -