Right to Know (aka R2K) Laws
Dominic Wilson at Oxford chastises the United States for enacting laws that “should not be.” He finds it “astounding that a state” — he focuses on New York — “feels that it is necessary to legislate to make doctors do what they should be doing anyway.” After all, Wilkinson notes, “the United States has enshrined autonomy as the keystone of medical ethics.”
Regulating Physician Behavior: Taking Doctors’ ‘Bad Law’ Claims Seriously
Sandra Johnson’s superb article, “Regulating Physician Behavior: Taking Doctors’ ‘Bad Law′ Claims Seriously,” was just posted to SSRN, making it more readily accessible to non-lawyers.  This article is a masterful review and elucidation of deep legal problems underlying medical futility disputes.  Here is the abstract.  
Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with my Patients about Life and Death
In a book published earlier this month by Penguin titled, Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with my Patients about Life and Death, Australian oncologist Ranjana Srivastava discusses end-of-life communication.
In a recent interview in the Sidney Morning Herald, Srivastava explains: “we do not talk to our patients as fully as we ought or when we fail to address their concerns that we know lurk beneath the surface - sometimes because we lack the time, but often because we are unsure how to do so.” She continues: ”We spend a lot of money on futile medicine and intensive care at the end of life and if we have limited resources like every nation does, we need to be thinking about how those resources are best allocated. I think investing in palliative care and boosting support services for sick people is very important. Those things should not be an adjunct.”
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