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Sedation to Unconsciousness in End-of-Life Care

The duty to relieve pain and suffering is central to the physician’s role as healer and is an obligation physicians have to their patients.

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Medically Ineffective Interventions

Physicians should only recommend and provide interventions that are medically appropriate.

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Orders Not to Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)

The ethical obligation to respect patient autonomy and self-determination requires that the physician respect decisions to refuse care.

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Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment

A patient who has decision-making capacity appropriate to the decision at hand has the right to decline any medical intervention.

Ethics
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Advance Directives

An advance directive never takes precedence over the contemporaneous wishes of a patient who has decision-making capacity.

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Advance Care Planning

Physicians should be sensitive to each patient’s individual situations and preferences when broaching discussion of planning for care at the end of life.

Ethics