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Volume 336:1458-1459 May 15, 1997 Number 20
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Clinical Problem-Solving: When Too Much is Too Little

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To the Editor: The Clinical Problem-Solving article "When Too Much Is Too Little" by Morrison et al. (Dec. 5 issue)1 should be required reading for every physician who cares for dying patients — and for every physician in training. It is a sobering account of how far we still have to go in respecting the rights of patients and their families to reject aggressive therapy. It also makes it clear that death is not always the enemy of the patient and that for some patients the least traumatic death is a legitimate goal of compassionate medicine and by no means . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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