Doing What We Shouldn't: Medical Futility and Moral Distress

American Journal of Bioethics 17 (2):41-43 (2017)
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The indiscriminate use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), untempered by evidence about outcomes, has been called “irrational exuberance” (Rosoff and Schneiderman 2017). There is much to be sai...

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