Futile Medical Treatment: a Review of the Ethical Arguments and Legal Holdings

Overview

Journal J Gen Intern Med

Publisher Springer

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1994 Mar 1

PMID 8195918

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Authors

M B Kapp

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