It'll make doctors better doctors, and lawyers better lawyers.
No standardised practice or formal guidance is available to help doctors make these challenging and complicated decisions which is perhaps unsurprising given the highly individualistic and contextual nature of VTE treatment at the end of life.
He wanted to make it clear that these doctors were not making a straightforward medical judgment but, rather, a moral judgment that people like Matthew were so devastated that they had lost their claim on existence.
Schoolchildren have made these lists for centuries, but doctors, incredibly, have not.
The flippant attitudes of doctors often made these patients feel embarrassed during the treatment process, and the long but inefficacious treatment also made the patients frustrated with the treatment outcome.
At the end of the study all documents used in the intervention arm were made available to these doctors.
Miserable people do not make good doctors.
They fill more prescriptions and make more doctors' visits.
"Obviously these results will make doctors, parents and young people themselves think harder about taking antidepressant medication," she said.
A blog entry published in September by Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie, a law firm in Newport Beach, Calif., put it this way: "The immediate choices that these doctors make can determine whether a patient dies, lives or ever walks again.
