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From the Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, OH*; the Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, and Bioethics Center, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, Greenville, NC ; and the Center for the Study of Bioethics and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. § Received for publication November 23, 1999. Determination of "futility" in emergency medicine
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