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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
President's Council on Bioethics Discussion Paper on Futility
On Friday, March 13th, the President's Council on Bioethics will talk about a discussion paper on medical futility, or as it is apparently being characterized, "beyond Medical rescue."
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"Beyond Medical Rescue"
Wow, that's terribly offensive at first impact..
Yet I can't put into words precisely why..
Part is because it sounds so final but even more so because it presents an impression of, "Eh. I just give up." on the part of any medical professional who might choose to use it..
Beyond Hope comes then equally to Mind..
Good point. There is a lot of semantic and psychological research that such negative implications should be avoided.
For example, "DNR - do not resuscitate" implies that we can but are not going to resuscitate. Better is "DNAR - do not attempt resuscitation" because it does not imply the attempt would be successful.
Perhaps best of all is "AND - allow natural death" because it focuses on what providers will do not on what they will NOT do.
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