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After complications during surgery at a hospital in Houston, Andrea Clark, 54, ended up on a respirator and in need of kidney dialysis.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

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After complications during surgery at a hospital in Houston, Andrea Clark, 54, ended up on a respirator and in need of kidney dialysis. Her doctor decided it was futile to continue treatment. Her family disagreed. Surely the doctor would defer to their wishes (and Clark's, it was clear), wouldn't he? Not in Texas, where there is a law that, in such a dispute, an "ethics or medical committee" will decide whether to continue "life-sustaining treatment"--and will make that decision based in part on the committee's judgment of whether the patient's life is likely to be worth living. ...

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