• Critical care clinics · Jan 1996

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    The language of death: euthanatos et mors--the science of uncertainty.

    • K A Koch.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville, USA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 1996 Jan 1; 12 (1): 1-14.

    AbstractThis article proposes that the medical community has a responsibility to guide and to treat patients through death just as it guides and treats them through life. A number of misunderstood concepts relating to this responsibility are discussed. An approach to the management of death that requires an embracing of medical uncertainty is developed.

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