The field of modern-day bioethics is relatively young and continues to constantly evolve in parallel with the ever-increasingly complex nature of contemporary medical practice. These advances present clinicians with an array of therapeutic options that would have not seemed possible only a generation ago. Given these medical advances and the expansion of the academic and medicolegal field of bioethics, one would have thought that clinical decision-making would have become easier. However, paradoxically, this has not proved to be the case.