Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Report on the Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions¶
President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. (1983). Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Report on the Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions: A Report on the Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions.
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- Guardian or Delegate Role
- The animating safeguard is the substituted-judgment standard — the duty to decide as the principal would, not as the guardian prefers — paired with real, independent review.
This sourceDefines substituted judgment as deciding as the patient would, distinct from surrogate preference, with impartial review available for disputed decisions.
- The animating safeguard is the substituted-judgment standard — the duty to decide as the principal would, not as the guardian prefers — paired with real, independent review.
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