tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165916407932834077.post4069620457462854953..comments2024-03-28T17:04:23.160-05:00Comments on Medical Futility Blog: Writing Policies on End-of-Life TreatmentThaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559981121040578536noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165916407932834077.post-32219649823293086002013-05-05T15:50:36.937-05:002013-05-05T15:50:36.937-05:00I have been so happy that you have preserved the h...I have been so happy that you have preserved the history of "medical futility" and the law and the ongoing evolvement of law and policy under the Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA)<br /> of 1991.<br /><br />Were it not for your scholarship, this history would not have been preserved and freely published on the Internet for ALL interested parties to read and study. <br /><br />Hopefully, the connection of medical futility to fiscal futility and the inappropriate use of DNR Code Status will become transparent, Perhaps, then, policy from the highest level of Federal and State Government will protect the two choices implioed in the 1991 PSDA ---that is, both the Right to Die to shorten suffering and the Right to Live (if it isn't medically futile as determined by some due process procedure) ) by means of a life-extending or life-saving procedure. <br /><br />Thank you for your good work. <br /><br />Did you know, my dear Professor, when you wrote your first paper on the Mirandization of the PSDA back in the 1990's that it was possible that the silence of patients would or could be used against "ignorant" patients, and is this why you have devoted so much of your time and energy to create your scholarship and expertise on medical futility and the law?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com