Should We Provide Life-Sustaining Treatments to Patients with Permanent Loss of Cognitive Capacities?
A very troubling issue for health care systems today is that of life-sustaining treatment for patients who have permanently lost their cognitive capacities. These include patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS), or minimally conscious state (MCS), as well as a growing population of patients at...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rambam Health Care Campus
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://rmmj.org.il/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=177 |