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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Susan B. Rubin
Affiliation:
Susan B. Rubin, Ph.D., is a clinical ethicist and Co-founder of the Ethics Practice in Berkeley, California, a firm devoted to providing bioethics education, research, and clinical consultation. She has served as a consulting ethicist in a variety of acute and long-term care settings

Extract

Whether surrogate decisionmakers have the authority to refuse pain and symptom management measures on behalf of incapacitated patients is a particularly timely question to ask in this era of growing commitment to ensuring appropriate pain and symptom management measures for all patients.

Type
ETHICS COMMITTEES AT WORK
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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