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Journal article
A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care
Journal
Medicine
Primary health care
Pharmaceuticals
End of life care
End of life decision making
Opioids
Description
Should doctors fear legal sanction for using opioids at the end of life?
A perfect storm arises from a rare confluence of adverse meteorological factors, and is a metaphor for an especially bad situation caused by a combination of unfavourable circumstances. Health care at the end of life has been significantly disturbed by two converging fronts. The first is very public conversations relating to opioid overuse. The second is the current tension between standard end‐of‐life care and voluntary assisted suicide.
Publication Details
DOI:
10.5694/mja2.50164
Copyright:
Australasian Medical Publishing Company 2019
License type:
All Rights Reserved
Access Rights Type:
Paid subscription required
Post date:
7 Jun 2019
