This position document has been developed by the Dysphagia Working Group, a committee
of members from the European Society for Swallowing Disorders and the European Union …

Nonabandonment is one of a physician's central ethical obligations; it reflects a longitudinal
commitment both to care about patients and to jointly seek solutions to problems with …

Palliative care is generally agreed to be the standard of care for the dying, but there remain
some patients for whom intolerable suffering persists. In the face of ethical and legal …

This book is the result of over 30 years of collaboration among its authors. It uses the
systematic account of our common morality developed by one of its authors to provide a …

Background Voluntary refusal of food and fluids has been proposed as an alternative to
physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who wish to hasten death. There are few …

When provided by a skilled, multidisciplinary team, palliative care is highly effective at
addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of dying patients and …

We have-interviewed a convenience sample of oncologists and AIDS specialists about their
views on voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, and we find that partial …

OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become the preferred
method to provide enteral tube feeding to older adults who have difficulty eating, but the …

Evidence that dying occurs as a natural, final event in the wholeness of human life is
culturally, artistically, and scientifically persuasive. Very elderly patients eventually undergo …

This Clinical Report was reaffirmed January 2014 and June 2024. There is broad consensus
that withholding or withdrawing medical interventions is morally permissible when requested …