On this blog, Professor Thaddeus Pope tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

No Ventilators for the ALS Patients

Bioethicist Rob Butcher has started a new "health ethics" blog. Today he wrote up a case that illustrates some aspects of medical futility: a case where a facility determined to refuse ventilators to end-stage ALS patients.

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