Publication at Faculty of Law, Faculty of Humanities |
2015
Abstract
The article deals with the issue of withholding and withdrawing life sustaining/prolonging treatment. It is is considered from both legal point of view and the point of view of medicine and ethics.
By demonstration on simple examples, it is shown that in practice there is no point in distinguishing between withholding and withdrawing medical treatment. At the same time, an obligation of a medical doctor to accompany terminal patients is examined and it is also considered to what extent the medical doctors are obligated to "build a bridge over the gulf of an incurable disease".