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Fagerlin, Schneider
Advanced Directives have FAILED
- - living wills do not live up to their expectations
- - their expectations were unrealistic from the start
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Hickman, Hammes, Moss, Tolle
Advanced directives HAVE NOT failed
- new process of introducing advanced directives can achieve their original aims
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Wier, Peters
Adolescents should be allowed to make their own decisions
-adolescents with normal cognitive and developmental skills have the capacity to make decisions about their own health care, advance directives can give older peds patients a voice in their care
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Lainie Friedman Ross
adolescents SHOULD NOT be able to make their own life and death decisions
- parents are responsible for making their child's health care decisions, children need to develop virtues
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Marcia Angell
Physicians should assist patients in suicide
-a physician's main duties are to respect patient autonomy and to relieve suffering
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Kathleen M. Foley
Physicians should NOT assist in patient suicide
- if this becomes legal, it will begin a slippery slope, to subsititute for interventions that otherwise might enhance the quality of life for dying patients
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