Relieving suffering or intentionally hastening death: where do you draw the line?

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Published in Crit Care Med on January 01, 2008

Authors

Charles L Sprung1, Didier Ledoux, Hans-Henrik Bulow, Anne Lippert, Elisabet Wennberg, Mario Baras, Bara Ricou, Peter Sjokvist, Charles Wallis, Paulo Maia, Lambertius G Thijs, Jose Solsona Duran, ETHICUS Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. sprung@cc.huji.ac.il

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