Withholding Medical Treatment

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An examination of medical, moral, legal, social and economic issues of allowing patients to die.

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"The Practice of Witholding or Withdrawing Patient Treatment
Introduction
The health care reform movement of the past decade has focused on standardizing protocols and reducing health care costs. As a result, some patients have had treatment withheld from them, or withdrawn from them, in ways that have created controversy. In other instances, patients have asked to have treatment withheld from them in certain specific situations, or life-support withdrawn if they have no possibility of revival. The right-to-die movement has worked to make physician-assisted suicide a possibility for terminal patients. These are all difficult issues, however, and public debate about them has revealed a wide range of opinions."

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