#118 "Futility": At the Bedside Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Clinical Ethics - Potentially Inappropriate Treatment
In a strict sense, physiological futility helps limit how we impose our values on a decision that should really be about the patient's values. The group Dr. Bosslett worked with opted for a term that acknowledges prognostic uncertainty in the choices we make and the role that clinician values can play in these discussions. "I don't find any of this terminology helpful to say it's futile," he says.
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