Can't We Improve on Advance Directives?
- From the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229.
TO THE EDITOR:
In his perspective on advance directives, Perkins (1) states what many physicians have known or suspected for a long time: Advance directives are of little or no benefit in many, if not most, end-of-life situations. This is undoubtedly why so few physicians draft advance directives for themselves.
I agree that we should not completely discard advance directives, because they do have value in at least 2 situations. The first is the …
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