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This book is written for the acute care clinician(nurse or physician)or anyone caring for patients who are near death after making decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapy. Content focuses on the clinical aspects of care while addressing ethical and legal considerations and the processes of communication and decision making.

Illustrated by case studies drawn from real-life experience, this book dispels common myths about forgoing treatment, offers historical background on right-to-die cases, and provides definitions and discussions of ethical principles. Book; 140 pages; 1998.

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