A compelling class-action lawsuit filed last week against Arizona shows that much needs to be done to force policymakers to abandon this cruel and futile practice.
This is something ingrained into the English psyche from a young age, where very few youngsters embrace learning another language and then, in later years, see it as a largely futile practice given the widespread general assumption that pretty much everybody already speaks English.
The findings could suggest that more efforts should be made to establish ethics teaching and support in Dentistry – similar to other clinical fields with the aim to raise awareness on futile practice and questionable treatment practices and to strengthen the ethical quality of a technically highly developed field of patient care.
To estimate the frequency with which dysthanasia and/or futile care is practiced in adult and pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) of a specialty hospital in El Bajío Region, in Mexico, and to identify the main factors associated with their occurrence.
A recent proposal of a 'charter for the rights of the dying child' attests to this: "To have access to child-specific palliative-care programmes that avoid futile or excessively burdensome practices and therapeutic abandonment" [ 45].
In northern European countries, withdrawal of treatment, if treatment is considered futile, is a more accepted practice than in southern European countries [ 18].
However, in the frenetic day-to-day activity of the typical IT department, maintaining those best practices is at best futile.
Rather than futile culls, smart local councils should change refuse practices, stop fishermen gutting their catch near shore, and, most of all, stop visitors feeding gulls.
If we ignore inequality and poverty then our practice would be reduced to the futile function of a social aspirin.
72% of the ICUs' staff who was surveyed for this project affirmed to have practiced, at least once, dysthanasia and/or futile care.
