'I don't want to live this way, doc. Please take me off the ventilator and let me die.'
PM R
.
2011 Oct;3(10):968-75.
doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.09.001.
Authors
Kristi L Kirschner
1
,
Thomas R Kerkhoff
,
Lester Butt
,
Robert Yamada
,
Christopher C Battaglia
,
Joanne Wu
,
Timothy E Quill
,
Erin Didde
,
Elizabeth Bahr
Affiliation
1
Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL, USA. k-kirschner@northwestern.edu
PMID:
22024328
DOI:
10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.09.001
No abstract available
Publication types
Review
MeSH terms
Attitude to Death*
Empathy*
Humans
Informed Consent / psychology*
Physician-Patient Relations / ethics*
Respiration, Artificial / ethics*
Withholding Treatment*