GMC faces challenge over withdrawing treatment

Considerations regarding withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Ethical aspects of withdrawing and withholding treatment.

Decisions about withdrawing and withholding treatment are common in health care. During almost every encounter between health professionals and patients a decision needs to be made about treatment options. In most cases these choices do not pose any difficulty, for example, starting antibiotics when a patient has an infection. However, decisions not to treat, or to stop treating, raise fundamen...

Southall: the GMC responds.

Women and the GMC.

Dr George Percival joined the consultant staff when the new building was opened in 1936. Trained in Paris, Lausanne, and Zurich, he knew as well as Dr Jamieson how to deal with leg eczema. Sir Robert Grant, the head of a family already lavishly generous to the University of Edinburgh, was aware of the damage that skin disease could do to his employees, and was unhappy when he developed eczema o...

Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life: A Jewish Approach

Modern medicine is one of the greatest successes of the past century. It eradicated a few life-threatening diseases, almost doubled the average life expectancy in many developed countries and can, to date, effectively treat numerous conditions. As a result, we have learned to trust it and rely on it. Moreover, most of us will put ourselves in the hands of healthcare providers in one of the most...