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Commentary: Clarifying Medical Decisionmaking—Who, How, and Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Tyler S. Gibb  and
Michael J. Redinger
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In its simplest interpretation, this is a case about goals of care and appropriate code status. At the outset, we must confess that we found this case to be extremely interesting—not for the novelty of the issues or its ethical complexity but because it is truly a case of the ordinary. Too often when teaching or discussing clinical ethics cases, we are distracted by the exotic and the unusual and ignore the mundane cases that every practicing clinical ethicist must be able to competently manage.1,2,3

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 2016 , pp. 556 - 560
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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