Mayo Clinic review of ethical decision making with end-of-life care
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 12:56
in Psychology & Sociology
In a review article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic physicians differentiate the ethical and legal permissibility of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments and accepted comfort measures, specifically palliative sedation, from that of physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.