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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Robert V. Brody
Robert V. Brody
Affiliation:
Robert V. Brody, M.D., is Chief of the Pain Consultation Clinic and Chair of the Ethics Committee at San Francisco General Hospital, California. He is also Clinical Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at University of California, San Francisco
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Extract

All treatments, even those labeled as supportive, have burdens as well as benefits. Patients and their surrogates have the right to finally decide whether the offered treatment's cost-benefit calculation is acceptable.

Type
ETHICS COMMITTEES AT WORK
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 100
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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