
Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?
Dr Youngner is a professor of bioethics and psychiatry in the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?
Patients with terminal illnesses may choose to refuse treatment or even hasten their own deaths, but is that the same thing as suicide?