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Ethics roundtable debate: Withdrawal of tube feeding in a patient with persistent vegetative state where the patients wishes are unclear and there is family dissension

Tom Buckley, David Crippen, Anthony L DeWitt, Malcolm Fisher, Antonios Liolios, Christine L Scheetz and Leslie M Whetstine

Critical Care 2004, 8:79-84 doi:10.1186/cc2451

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Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a comparative study of the ethical reasoning of physicians and the general public

Anders Rydvall, Niels Lynöe Critical Care 2008, 12:R13 (15 February 2008)

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Differing opinions between the public and physicians over the reasonable amount of care provided to severely ill patients suggests that the healthcare profession should be more aware of the general public's expectations.

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