Keeping Patients Alive a Few Weeks More: Is It Futile Care?

Doctors give many reasons for providing 'futile' care: 'a miracle could happen'; the patient wants to live to his/her anniversary. If the patient gets a marginal benefit from care, was it futile?

Source: Medscape HIV AIDS Podcast - November 15, 2012 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts