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...proposals are necessary because medical developments and technological developments in the past 25 years have greatly improved the capability to keep a terminally ill person alive, Rabkin said...
...give you an example," Rabkin said. "The other day I was walking down one of the halls in the hospital, and I came across a nurse standing outside of a patient's room crying with her fists clenched...
Previously, decisions to resuscitate were handled informally by a physician, but now recent controversies have created the necessity to "develop a methodology which allows us to make a decision that is fair, just, judicious and above board," Rabkin said...
...Rabkin's proposals allow the doctor and the patient--with the consent of an advisory committee--to agree beforehand that, after a certain point of deterioration of the patient's physical condition, the doctors will not make resuscitation attempts...
...Rabkin's original guidelines also allow the family of incompetent patients to make a similar decision. This is the portion of the guidelines which the recent court decision affects