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Comment
. 2018;60(3):400-402.
doi: 10.1353/pbm.2018.0014.

Medical Futility and "Brain Death"

Franklin G Miller
Comment

Medical Futility and "Brain Death"

Franklin G Miller. Perspect Biol Med. 2018.

Abstract

Judgments of futility are always relative to some goal. In light of that proposition, continued treatment for those diagnosed as "brain dead" is not necessarily futile.

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