of the patient and/or his immediate family" (Rachels 88).
Many people in the medical profession have recently begun to take a viewpoint which is sensitive to the need for patient's rights. Thus, many doctors now agree that the patient should be the final decision maker regarding his or her treatment and that the ultimate role of the physician is to "offer technical information and medical skills that the consumer may or may not decide to use" (Walton 201). Nevertheless, most doctors also continue to believe that it is not advisable for a terminally ill patient to rush into the decision of utilizing
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