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Withholding life prolonging treatment, and self deception.

G M Sayers and S Perera

J Med Ethics 28(6):347-52 (2002) PMID 12468652

To compare non-treatment decision making by general practitioners and geriatricians in response to vignettes. To see whether the doctors' decisions were informed by ethical or legal reasoning.

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