PMID: 8447710Mar 22, 1993Paper

Limits of patient autonomy. Physician attitudes and practices regarding life-sustaining treatments and euthanasia

Archives of Internal Medicine
T R FriedD H Novack

Abstract

In making decisions about life-sustaining medical interventions, respect for patient autonomy has been widely advocated, yet little is known about what variables may compete with a physician's ability to honor patient requests in clinical situations. We investigated physician attitudes and behaviors about end-of-life decisions by means of a questionnaire that posed five hypothetical scenarios in which an elderly, competent, terminally ill patient made a request that, if agreed to by the physician, could result in the patient's death. We surveyed 392 physicians in Rhode Island and asked them to decide (1) whether or not they would comply with a specific patient request, (2) the justifications they used in making their decision, and (3) whether they had been approached with such a request in their clinical practices. Two hundred fifty-six physicians (65%) responded. Of the respondents, 98% agreed not to intubate the patient in the face of worsening respiratory failure. Eighty-six percent agreed to give the patient a dose of narcotics that could cause respiratory compromise and death to treat his pain adequately. Fifty-nine percent agreed, once the patient was intubated without hope of coming off the respirator, to turn the respir...Continue Reading

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