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Issues in Law & Medicine articles from December 1996

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Journal covering legal and ethical issues in the delivery of medical care.

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Issues in Law & Medicine archives from December 1996

The dilemma of "medical futility" - a "wisdom model" for decisionmaking.
December 22, 1996... The rise of the patient advocacy movement of the 1960s and '70s, along with the resulting advent of ethics committees and advance directives legislation, can be traced to growing concern over physician exuberance to employ life-prolonging...