TY - JOUR
T1 - Care of the Hopelessly Ill
T2 - Proposed Clinical Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide
AU - Quill, Timothy E.
AU - Cassel, Christine K.
AU - Meier, Diane E.
PY - 1992/11/5
Y1 - 1992/11/5
N2 - One of medicine's most important purposes is to allow hopelessly ill persons to die with as much comfort, control, and dignity as possible. The philosophy and techniques of comfort care provide a humane alternative to more traditional, curative medical approaches in helping patients achieve this end.1 2 3 4 5 6 Yet there remain instances in which incurably ill patients suffer intolerably before death despite comprehensive efforts to provide comfort. Some of these patients would rather die than continue to live under the conditions imposed by their illness, and a few request assistance from their physicians. The patients who ask us to face such predicaments…
AB - One of medicine's most important purposes is to allow hopelessly ill persons to die with as much comfort, control, and dignity as possible. The philosophy and techniques of comfort care provide a humane alternative to more traditional, curative medical approaches in helping patients achieve this end.1 2 3 4 5 6 Yet there remain instances in which incurably ill patients suffer intolerably before death despite comprehensive efforts to provide comfort. Some of these patients would rather die than continue to live under the conditions imposed by their illness, and a few request assistance from their physicians. The patients who ask us to face such predicaments…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199211053271911
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199211053271911
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 1406842
AN - SCOPUS:0026779361
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 327
SP - 1380
EP - 1384
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 19
ER -