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Defining futile life-prolonging treatments through Neo-Socratic Dialogue

BACKGROUND: In Japan, people are negative towards life-prolonging treatments. Laws that regulate withholding or discontinuing life-prolonging treatments and advance directives do not exist. Physicians, however, view discontinuing life-prolonging treatments negatively due to fears of police investiga...

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Autores principales: Aizawa, Kuniko, Asai, Atsushi, Bito, Seiji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24321531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-14-51