Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician's notion of medical duty or a family's demands.
The notion that treatment may be futile in the oldest or the most impaired patients was thus not supported by Wattmo and colleagues' cohort.
Dr. 't Hooft acknowledged that there had been many futile attempts to eliminate quantum mechanics' seemingly nonsensical notions, like particles that can instantaneously react to one another across light-years of space.
If they thought it might be a cakewalk, though, as it had been in the first Test, they were sorely disabused of the notion by the worthy, if ultimately futile resistance of the opposition second time around.
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
"When I asked one of the owners, Izzy Yanay, about the lack of a day of rest, he said of the workers: 'This notion that they need to rest is completely futile.
When I asked one of the owners, Izzy Yanay, about the lack of a day of rest, he said of the workers: "This notion that they need to rest is completely futile.
Awareness of HRQL after critical illness is important if we are to avoid the notion that ICU treatment of COPD patients is futile and a burden for the patient and to society [ 38, 39].
For now, the most important step is to question the notion that all spending on patients who died was futile because the outcome was a bad one.
But there is something quietly moving about Hapgood's maternal anxiety and the notion that Russia and the west are involved in ultimately futile espionage games.
By contrast, if official state religious institutions become the partner (which in most cases have limited legitimacy or credibility), such partnership renders the notion of "progress towards our foreign policy and our national security goals" futile.
