Medical Futility and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment: Better Ethics with More Precise Definitions and Language

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (3):423-427 (2018)
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Like the authors of some of the other responses to Schneiderman, Jecker, and Jonsen, I too was one of the group that produced “An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units”. Furthermore, ethical and legal issues surrounding futile and potentially inappropriate medical treatment have been a primary focus of my scholarship for more than a decade. Schneiderman, Jecker, and Jonsen offer a strong critique of the Multiorganization Statement, but they do not describe it with sufficient precision. There are points of true normative disagreement between the...

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