Autonomy and Ethics in Action

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The importance of the article, "Autonomy for Burned Patients When Survival Is Unprecedented" (p. 308, this issue), is that it shows that ethics in medicine is not something restricted to pieties in conference rooms or seminars; it is, like the sciences of medicine, a necessary, useful and productive basis for action.In their article, Imbus and Zawacki describe an approach to the patient whose burns are so extensive that "survival is unprecedented." The burn-care team came to realize that the decision to extend maximum therapeutic effort rather than supportive care could not be made by the physician or medical team . . .

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