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First and last it is the physician’s task to prevent death. Yet many doctors subscribe to the aphorism, ‘You should not kill nor need you strive officiously to keep alive’. When death is inevitable and expected and when the patient’s position is helpless then heroic, distressing or degrading treatments should not be attempted.
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Marjot, D.H. (1983). Mortality and alcoholism — the need for urgent detoxification. In: Golding, P. (eds) Alcoholism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6607-9_19
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