Competent patients with advanced states of permanent paralysis have the right to forgo life-sustaining therapy.

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Published in Neurology on January 01, 1993

Authors

J L Bernat1, R E Cranford, F I Kittredge, R N Rosenberg

Author Affiliations

1: VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009.

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