Pellegrino, "Compassion needs reason too" JAMA 1993;270:874-875

Quill assumes it can be made right if the process is thurough enough

the physician is still deciding on the death

physicians may get burned out and want to get on with the process and inadvertently hasten up and encourage the patient to consider death

compassion must be subjigated to morality


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