Medical Futility Blog

Charlie Gard has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October 2016. Clinicians there determined that it was in Charl...

I am delighted to contribute to UpToDate, starting with "Legal Aspects in  Palliative and End of Life Care in the United States."...

Join me, physician David Grube, and thanatologist Kim Mooney, at the MCDES Fall Conference: Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)—Lessons Learned in O...

In the spring 2017 issue of the NYSBA Health Law Journal, Joe Fins and Robert Swidler make a eloquent and powerful argument for restoring ...

Routledge has just published a 14-chapter new anthology: E thics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments.  John K. Davis, "Intr...

Last week, the highest court in New York heard 50 minutes of oral argument in a case seeking to clarify the legality of medical aid in dying...

In a sign of things to come, on June 2, Nevada  Justice Pickering amended the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA).  Expect other s...

Today is the start of  Euroanaesthesia 2017: The European Aneasthesiology Conference. One notable talk by Giuseppe Citerio is "Brain...

University of Utah law professor Teneille Brown has just posted  a copy of "Medical Futility and Religious Free Exercise" recentl...

Yesterday, former British breast surgeon Ian Paterson was sentenced to 15 years in prison for lying to patients about cancer risks and carry...

Rinat Dray has been litigating a lawsuit against Staten Island University Hospital over a cesarean performed without her consent and over he...

An ageing caregiver faces a dilemma over asking her daughter to take care of her son with chronic mental illness. A domestic worker is unsur...

Are U.S. patient safety organizations promoting the use of patient decision aids like Australian ones?

The 14th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC) will take place in Oxford, England 21st-23rd June 2018. ICCEC2018 ...