(Reuters Health)—Doctors who were asked about causes of inappropriate care at the end of life didn’t have to look far to place blame. They blamed themselves. Australian researchers interviewed 96 physicians from 10 medical specialties and asked them to describe situations when patients received end of life care that the doctors felt was inappropriate. Futile…
Ethics in Patients’ End-of-Life Care Compound Therapeutic Challenges for Rheumatologists
While end-of-life decisions are not frequently encountered in day-to-day practice, rheumatologists should be familiar with the ethical challenges that may arise when caring for patients in the ICU
Ethics Forum: The Ethical Side of End-of-Life Decisions
The role of the consulting physicians in the ICU, the concept of medical futility, and the management of complex patients when the goals of care may be changing.