Conversations centred on choice and autonomy might not improve end-of-life care

  1. Louisa Polak, retired general practitioner, visiting researcher
  1. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  1. lp542{at}medschl.cam.ac.uk

Few would disagree that it is bad when someone dies shortly after receiving medical treatment that their family thinks they would not have wanted. But I am concerned that Augst oversimplifies the challenges involved in avoiding this and that her proposals might have unintended adverse consequences.1 An enforceable “duty of candour,” for example, might lead clinicians to …

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