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To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article Paris et al. (July 29 issue)¹ quote a sentence from a lengthy chapter on biomedical ethics that I wrote for a recent textbook of critical care medicine; on the face of it, this looks as though my writings support the dominance of decision making by the patient, even when care is not medically indicated². Neither I nor my chapter supports this position. In fact, the sentence quoted refers to withholding basic life support (food, water, and supplementary oxygen), and not to the type of futile care exemplified by the case of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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