Where to Stop Treatment in a Sick and Elderly Patient?

A presentation titled 'Escalating care for the comorbid elderly-where do we stop?" will be delivered at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting by an Emeritus Professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London. Raanan Gillon, who is President of the UK's Institute of Medical Ethics, will argue that a patient's age should not in itself be considered an ethically relevant criterion for deciding 'where to stop'. Acknowledging that there is a morally plausible ...

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