Non-medically Beneficial Treatment (Futile Care)
{"Image DocumentName": "Non-medically Beneficial Treatment (Futile Care)", "Image ImageDescription": "Physicians are not obligated to provide care they consider physiologically futile even if a patient or family insists. If treatment cannot achieve its intended purpose, then to withhold it does not cause harm. Nor is failure to provide it a failure of standard of care. Luce in CCM in 2001 (End-of-Life Care: What do the American Courts Say?) discussed the legal setting around futility. In the previous case the intensivists all agreed that dialysis would not achieve its intended purpose and did not offer it. The wife demanded it and threatened to sue. However the intensivists obligation is to the patient. Dialysis in this care would not be medically beneficial. To provide it because the wife demanded it or threatened to sue would be unethical. 36.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}