Legal Issues Concerning Withholding and Withdrawal of Dialysis

The dynamic Australian health law professor Cameron Stewart and a physician colleague have published "Legal issues concerning withholding and withdrawal of dialysis" in Nephrology.  The in-press article is available as a free download.  



The article is a general overview of legal principles concerning healthcare decision making.  Among these, is some good analysis of medical futility.  For example:  "The law does not obligate a nephrologist to provide treatment that they believe is of no benefit to the patient or that any benefit is outweighed by the burdens of the treatment . . . ."