Euthanasia: Doctors need help with life and death decisions

I am an emergency physician, with dying patients frequently coming into my care in the ED. Mostly, people want to live so we get on with resuscitating them. Some are at end of life and are ready to go. When a patient known to be at end of life comes into the ED with a significant deterioration, we need them to have made a choice: What would they like from us, comfort or cure? It is rare to be able to offer both. Standard care, trying to “cure”, is our default. “Resuscitate first, ask questions…



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