%T A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care
%A Geoffrey Mitchell
%A Lindy Willmott
%A Benjamin P. White
%A et al.

%D 2019
%J Medical Journal of Australia
%K Medicine, %K Primary health care, %K Pharmaceuticals, %K End of life care, %K End of life decision making, %K Opioids


%R 10.5694/mja2.50164
%U https://apo.org.au/node/240371

%X 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.
%9 Journal article