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• And, they added, the doctors may contribute to patients'making bad choices, including seeking aggressive but futile treatments.
• Some doctors say they have simply stopped futile treatment, without telling a patient's family or over a family's objections.
• That means, he said, that doctors who provide futile treatment face questions from managers about whether they are spending too much on their patients.
• After a final and futile treatment at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, he was rushed home on Friday to fulfill his wish that he die in his homeland.
• There are many reasons why seriously ill patients choose to forgo intensive care, including the desire to avoid futile treatment and to die surrounded by loved ones rather than machines.
• On March 15, 2005, six-month-old infant Sun Hudson, who had a lethal congenital malformation, was one of the first children to have care withdrawn under the Texas Futile Treatment Law.
• They wonder if the sick and the disabled will feel pressure _ either self-imposed or from relatives _ into choosing suicide over prolonged and inevitably futile treatment, particularly at a time when health care dollars are increasingly limited.
• Their findings, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that despite two decades of right-to-die activism, vast numbers of Americans continue to die in intensive-care units, alone and in pain, after days or weeks of futile treatment _ even if they have living wills.