Futility - Attack on Paternalistic Predominance of the Physician's View

I just finished reading a new article by Belgian law professor Christophe Lemmens in the European Journal of Health Law, titled "A New Style of End-of-life Cases: A Patient’s Right to Demand Treatment or a Physician’s Right to Refuse Treatment? The Futility Debate Revisited."  



Most of the article is a pretty standard overview of the ethical and legal landscape, but with more non-U.S. citations than I typically see.  In terms of an original thesis, Lemmens judges that "most of the time the predominance of the physician’s view is stressed."  Lemmens critically analyses this predominance" resulting in a re-appraisal of the patient’s will."  Lemmens states that the goal of his article is to provide "a counter movement to the paternalistic predominance of the physician's view."