Medical futility
Schneiderman, L.J.
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 110(22): 775-778
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5325 PMID: 9885142 Document Number: 486483
The debate on medical futility can lead to a fresh revisiting of the doctor-patient relationship and with it a restoration of common sense and reality to society's grasp of the powers and limits of medicine. In my view, the duty of the physician is to attempt that which is of therapeutic benefit to the patient. Nothing less and nothing more.