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. 2004 Mar-Apr;34(2):30-42.

Enough. The failure of the living will

Angela Fagerlin  1 , Carl E Schneider
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  • PMID: 15156835
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Enough. The failure of the living will

Angela Fagerlin et al. Hastings Cent Rep. 2004 Mar-Apr.
Free article

Abstract

In pursuit of the dream that patients' exercise of autonomy could extend beyond their span of competence, living wills have passed from controversy to conventional wisdom, to widely promoted policy. But the policy has not produced results, and should be abandoned.

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