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End of life care: issues and challenges.
Advances in medical technology, diagnostics, transplantations, antibiotic therapy, and critical care have created bioethical dilemmas that confront physicians while dealing with terminally ill patients who are unlikely to survive. Clinicians tend to be less formally trained in providing good end-of-life care, and some may tend to avoid terminally ill patients. This tends to aggravate the isolat...
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Technical advances in the care of advanced illness have created ethical challenges for physicians, patients, and families at the end of life. In the effort to survive longer, they are often confronted with difficult choices regarding medical advances that may inadvertently prolong suffering and the dying process rather than bring healing and recovery. Four major principles of medical ethics ass...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-3859
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.41795