TY  - Journal article

AU  - Geoffrey Mitchell
AU  - Lindy Willmott
AU  - Benjamin P. White
AU  - et al.
PY  - 2019
T1  - A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

JO  - Medical Journal of Australia

DO  - https://doi.org/APO-240371
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/240371

AB  - 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.
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