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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Susan B. Rubin
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
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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
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 98 - 100
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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