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Medical futility means that the proposed therapy should not be performed because available data show that it will not improve the patient's medical condition. Medical futility remains ethically controversial for several reasons. Some physicians summarily claim a treatment is futile without knowing the relevant outcome data. There is no unanimity regarding the statistical threshold for a treatment to be considered futile. There is often serious disagreement between physicians and families regarding the benefits to the patient of continued treatment. Medical futility has been conceptualized as a power struggle for decisional authority between physicians and patients/surrogates.
Lynn Keegan and Carol Ann Drick have gifted us with a resource that is sure to inform holistic end-of-life care. Their gentle yet clear approach gives the reader valuable factual information and narrative
According to Lynn Keegan and Carol Ann Drick, they consider how professional nurses can strive to advance death and dying to the next level in our evolution of compassionate end-of-life practices. They focus on describing the development of a place for dying that allows for a peaceful, profound experience that honors and respects human dignity and elevates the human family. Actual places called the Golden Room or Golden Room Centers are proposed to accommodate dying persons and their loved ones at end of life as they make the transition from physical life. They proposed to return to the sacredness of death and dying through access to a place for the physical transition.